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Recommended English books written by authors from Comoros (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Comoros for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".

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Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Comoros flag Comoros
Description:
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at sea. She drifts between two states of mind and between two islands 'in a hollow maze', evoking her memories so as to forget nothing and so as to delay the inevitable outcome. Confronted with the pressing immediacy of imminent death, Anguille recounts the story of her whole life in one long, sustained breath, in a series of brief couplets. But what Anguille recounts, in an assured voice which heralds a shipwreck, is also something other than her life - something much deeper below the ground, or r... continue
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The Kaffir of Karthala by Mohamed A. Toihiri EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Comoros flag Comoros
Description:
Though Mazamba knows he only has a few days left to extract most out of the world, and though he is married, Mazamba "embarks on an affair with a French woman, Aubéri, and comes to look at the world around him with new eyes." He is met with a society of racism, a nation of corruption and a globe of preconceived notions. But he still undertakes the quest to "challenge the status quo while he still can." Toihiri is a courageous and fearless writer. He looks and writes about the world with a different eye; an eye more clear and vivid an eye more brave. From the descriptions of 'a neighborhood whe... continue
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