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“ganesan abbu”

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  • Between Black and White

    by GANESAN ABBU ...
    A society divided by law. A young man determined to do what was right. A profound search for meaning in a bizarre maze of legalized racism.Born in the tumultuous dawn ofApartheid in South Africa. Ganesan Abbu was marked as different. Indoctrinated into a life which placed White citizens at the top of the social ladder and where Africans people were regarded as omens of dread and distrust, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered ... Read more

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  • Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

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    by Wole Soyinka ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, combining "elements of a murder mystery, a searing political satire and an Alice in Wonderland-like modern allegory of power and deceit" (Los Angeles Times).In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ... Read more

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  • Houses in Africa

    by Alma Alexander ...
    When I was 10, I was taken from my quiet, safe corner of old Europe and deposited into an exotic new world. Africa, at once breathtaking and soul-destroying, from the snow-capped mountains and teeming game plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the haunted hunger-stalked dustbowls of Ethiopia and the Sudan – the hideous and the magnificent have always gone hand in hand there.Nobody who has once set foot ... Read more

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  • Jump and Other Stories

    by Nadine Gordimer ...
    Fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging stories from the Nobel Prize Winner, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Looking for Transwonderland

    Travels in Nigeria

    by Noo Saro-Wiwa ...
    A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review).Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist ... Read more

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  • The Smoke is Rising

    by Mahesh Rao ...
    The future is here. India has just sent its first spacecraft to the moon, and the placid city of Mysore is gearing up for its own global recognition with the construction of HeritageLand - Asia's largest theme park. From behind the formidable gates of Mahalakshmi Gardens to the shanty houses on the edge of town, the people of Mysore are abuzz as they watch their city prepare for a complete ... Read more

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  • Travels with My Economist

    Encounters with India

    by Lisa Scott ...
    Irreverent, laugh-out-loud tales of living and travelling in India. ... Read more

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  • The Sly Company of People Who Care

    A Novel

    by Rahul Bhattacharya ...
    In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond hunters, he grows absorbed with the fantastic possibilities of ... Read more

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  • Return to Good Riddance

    A Cameo of Contemporary Patna

    by Sankarshan Thakur ...
    Patna is not a nice place to be. It is home to me and I cannot stop wanting to go back every once in a while, wanting to be a part of its life. I say this even so: Patna is not a nice place to be.In this masterful portrait of Patna, Sankarshan Thakur chronicles the way the city has changed-or not-under chief minister Nitish Kumar. Having grown up in Patna, the author gives an insider-outsider ... Read more

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  • 10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing

    Plus Coetzee, Gordimer, Achebe, Okri

    Edited by The Caine Prize for African Writing ...
    Celebrating ten years of the leading literary prize for African fiction (dubbed "The African Booker"), 10 Years of the Caine Prize brings together the ten winning stories along with a story each from the four African winners of the Booker Prize: Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Ben Okri.The ten winners:Leila Aboulela for The MuseumHelon Habila for Love PoemsBinyavanga Wainaina for ... Read more

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  • Tick Bite Fever

    by David Bennun ...
    Tick Bite Fever is the unconventional memoir of a very unconventional childhood.In the early Seventies, Dave Bennun's family transplanted themselves from Swindon to the wilds of Kenya. His father, who was a doctor, had lived in Africa before (but had felt it expedient to leave when the South African government realised he was carting explosives around in the boot of his car for the ANC). For Dave, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD