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Recommended books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Africa Challenge" were written by authors from Madagascar. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Africa / Madagascar flag Madagascar
Description:
The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promis... continue
Recommended: 22 Mar 2022

2.

Georgica by Claude Simon DE

Rating: 1     1 Vote
Country: Africa / Madagascar flag Madagascar
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Recommended: 02 Sep 2023

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Return to the Enchanted Island

Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson EN

Rating: 2     1 Vote
Country: Africa / Madagascar flag Madagascar
Description:
In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big c... continue
Recommended: 10 Dec 2022


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