Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (810)
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Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
"I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting." --Toni Morrison
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Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw by Eddie Ndopu EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
'Uncompromising... A masterful writer poised for even more great success' - Forest Whitaker, Academy award-winning actor A memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful. Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn't live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop music and haute couture, lip syncing to the latest hits, and was the only wheelchair user at his school, where he flourished academically. By his lat... continue
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The Life and Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experience—the need for an interior, s... continue
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Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
From the author of Never Never, co-written with Colleen Hoover! #1 New York Times bestselling author Tarryn Fisher delivers a pulse-pounding, fast-paced suspense novel that will leave you breathless—an instant bestselling thriller you won’t be able to put down! Imagine that your husband has two other wives. You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself. But one day, while you’re doing laundry, you fi... continue
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Things I Don't Want to Know : A Response to George Orwell's 1946 Essay 'Why I Write' by Deborah Levy EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. It is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers. This first volume of the trilogy focuses on the writer as a young woman - the confusion and turbulence of youth, and the uncertainties of carving an identity as a writer. The second volume, The Co... continue
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Things I Don't Want to Know : On Writing by Deborah Levy EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, The Cost of Living. Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write." Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter--political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm--and Levy's newest work riffs on these sa... continue
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O melhor tempo é o presente by Nadine Gordimer PT
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Amantes clandestinos no passado, devido às leis raciais que proibiam relações entre negros e brancos, hoje Jabulile Gumede e Steve Reed vivem numa África do Sul democrática. Ambos foram ativistas que lutaram com todas as forças pelo fim do apartheid, e seus filhos, felizmente, já nasceram em um tempo e em um lugar de liberdade.
Mas à medida que os ideais de uma vida melhor para todos são ameaçados por tensões políticas e raciais, pela ressaca das ambiguidades morais e pelo enorme abismo entre os privilegiados ... continue
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Der Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien DE
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Als der Hobbit Bilbo Beutlin eines Tages Besuch von dem grossen Zauberer Gandalf bekommt, schwant ihm nichts Gutes. Fast gegen seinen Willen, aber dann doch von der Abenteuerlust gepackt, schliesst er sich einer Expedition von 13 Zwergen an, um ihnen als Meisterdieb zu helfen, ihren Zwergenschatz zurückzustehlen, auf dem der Drache Smaug tief im Schicksalsberg schläft. Auf seiner Reise findet Bilbo einen Ring, der ihn zu seinem Entzücken unsichtbar macht, als er vor dem mordlustigen Gollum weglaufen muss. Auch beim Auskundschaften des Drachenhorts leistet der Ring ihm unschätzbare Dienste. Als... continue
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Der Herr der Ringe by J. R. R. Tolkien DE
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Einem jungen Hobbit namens Frodo wird ein Ring anvertraut, von dem eine dunkle Macht ausgeht. Frodo macht sich mit seinen Freunden auf eine abenteuerliche Reise, um das von der zerstörerischen Kraft des Rings bedrohte Auenland zu retten.