Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (892)
501.
Pão Seco by Muhammad Chukri PT
MoroccoDescription:
Estreia do autor em Portugal, em tradução directa do árabe, Pão Seco foi publicado originalmente em 1973, na tradução inglesa de Paul Bowles (For Bread Alone), quando os editores de língua árabe não estavam ainda preparados para o caos narrativo, a linguagem crua e a indisciplina gramatical que desafiavam a tradição e o «bom gosto». «Verdadeiro documento do desespero humano» (Tennessee Williams), obra de culto proibida até recentemente nos países árabes por tocar em tabus da sociedade magrebina, este avassalador romance autobiográfico consagrou o autor e continua a iluminar o caminho de várias... continue
502.
The First Wife : A Tale of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane EN
Country: Africa / 
Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work fr... continue
503.
Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life : Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique by Lina Magaia EN
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
A personal account of the horrifying effects of life caused by apartheid South African backed MNR rebels in Mozambique
504.
We Killed Mangy-Dog : & Other Stories by Luís Bernardo Honwana EN
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
A collection of stories set in Mozambique.
505.
The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto EN
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
An extraordinary portrait of an Africa country after a civil war.
506.
O fio das missangas : contos by Mia Couto PT
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
Estórias breves mas contendo, cada uma delas, as infinitas vidas que se condensam em cada ser humano. Uma vez mais, a linguagem é trabalhada como se fosse delicada filigrana, confirmando o que o autor disse de si mesmo: «conto estórias por via da poesia». São vinte e nove contos unidos como missangas em redor de um fio, que é a escrita encantada de um consagrado fabricador de ilusões.
507.
Woman of the Ashes : A Novel by Mia Couto EN
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly approaching the border village. Desperate for help, Germano enlists Imani, a fifteen-year-old girl, to act as his interpreter. She belongs to the VaC... continue
508.
Un río llamado tiempo, una casa llamada tierra by Mia Couto ES
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
Mia Couto (1955) es uno de los escritores destacados de Mozambique. 'Un río llamado tiempo, una casa llamada tierra' (2002) es su ultima novela publicada en castellano (Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, 2016). Descendiente de portugueses (o sea, blanco), es capaz de trasladar la lógica y la musicalidad del lenguaje local. La novela gira en torno a la muerte latente del abuelo Mariano, las relaciones entre sus parientes, y los secretos del pasado. La historia tiene elementos de lo que podría llamarse realismo mágico; y si el lector es capaz de... continue
509.
Confession of the Lioness : A Novel by Mia Couto EN
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's Confession of the Lioness reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there. Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Ma... continue
510.
Every Man is a Race by Mia Couto EN
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
'A man's story is always badly told. That's because a person never stops being born. Nobody leads one sole life, we are all multiplied into different and ever-changeable men.' So it is with all the stories in this collection, which never make a definitive judgement on the individual life, but only suggest its possibilities. Set in Mozambique, the stories reflect the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the tragedy of the subsequent civil war. Mia Couto's first collection, Voices Made Night, was described as 'lyrical', 'magical' and 'compassionate' by the reviewers, who were unanimous in identi... continue