Book type: fiction (6133)



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Co-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne Yabouza EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Description:
Co-Wives, Co-Widows is the first adult work of fiction from the Central African Republic to be translated into English. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows of Lidou. Following their husband's sudden and unexplained death, they find themselves fighting tooth and nail for all that is important to them. A playful, bittersweet, story full of dry wit and local colour, set against a backdrop of political instability, corruption and the friction between the old and the new in Bangui in the Central African Republic.

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Cobalt Blue : A Novel by Sacina Kuṇḍalakara EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
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This translation first published: New Delhi, India: Hamish Hamilton, 2013.


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Cobrar por estar de pie by Gauz ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Ivory Coast flag Ivory Coast
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Esta novela de Gauz nos trae la historia de Ossiri, un estudiante marfileño empleado como vigilante después de haber aterrizado (sin papeles) en el París de los 90. Es un canto al honor de una familia, de una madre y de la comunidad africana de París, con sus imperfecciones, sus sufrimientos y sus diferencias. Es la historia política de un migrante, su mirada sobre Francia hasta el 11S. Es, en el fondo, una colección de las cosas vistas y oídas por el autor cuando trabajaba como vigilante en París. Una sátira de fibra social y m... continue

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Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood EN

Rating: 3 (4 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Cocaine Blues, the first historical mystery featuring the sensual, posh, and intrepid murder detective Phryne Fisher... "Phryne can not get enough of adventure and the reader can not get enough of Phryne."—Deadly Pleasures Looking for a riveting historical mystery series? This book is for you: Perfect for Fans of Rhys Bowen and Dorothy Sayers Inspired the Netflix show Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, starring Essie Davis Movie Currently Streaming on Acorn TV The London season is in full fling at the end of the roaring 1920s, but the ... continue

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Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Description:
"Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and class in twenty-first-century Latin America"--

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Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Rwanda flag Rwanda
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Mukasonga unsparingly resurrects the horrors of the Rwandan geocide while lyrically recording the quieter moments of daily life with her family—a moving tribute to all those who are displaced, who suffer. Mukasonga’s extraordinary, lyrical, and heartbreaking book … is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about the endurance of the human spirit and who hopes for a better world. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Los Angeles Review of Books Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is a compelling chronicle of the author’s childhood in the years leading up to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In a spare and pen... continue

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Coconut by Kopano Matlwa EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
An important rumination on youth in modern-day South Africa, this haunting debut novel tells the story of two extraordinary young women who have grown up black in white suburbs and must now struggle to find their identities. The rich and pampered Ofilwe has taken her privileged lifestyle for granted, and must confront her swiftly dwindling sense of culture when her soulless world falls apart. Meanwhile, the hip and sassy Fiks is an ambitious go-getter desperate to leave her vicious past behind for the glossy sophistication of city life, but finds Johannesburg to be more complicated and unforgi... continue

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Coconut Milk by Dan Taulapapa McMullin EN

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Country: Oceania / Samoa flag Samoa
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Coconut Milk is the first book-length collection of poems by contemporary queer Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin. His poems humorously attack cultural appropriation, gender, and the hypocrisies of Western influence in Oceania today. Pulling at the stereotype of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, his poems challenge and carve out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders.