World Literature - Africa - East Africa
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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025
In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593852621
- Language: English
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Oromay
$19.00 Add to cartA journalist finds himself embroiled in a disastrous government campaign as well as a sweeping romance in this landmark English translation of Ethiopia’s most famous novel.
An engrossing political thr- Author: Girma, Baalu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1641297441
- Language: English
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Oromay
$30.00 Add to cartA journalist finds himself embroiled in a disastrous government campaign as well as a sweeping romance in this landmark English translation of Ethiopia’s most famous novel.
An engrossing political thr- Author: Girma, Baalu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1641296666
- Language: English
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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
$30.00 Add to cartIn his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in T- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593852605
- Language: English
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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
$32.00 Add to cartIn his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a master storyteller captures young people in Tanzania in a time of dizzying global change.
At the turn of the twenty-first cen- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Sister Deborah
$19.00 Add to cartA sharp and playful critique of colonialism from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, animated by memories, archival specters, and powerful women
“In sentences of great beauty and restraint- Author: Mukasonga, Scholastique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1953861946
- Language: English
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By the Sea
$30.00 Read moreA masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it
On a late November- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 059371654X
- Language: English
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Kibogo
$18.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature “Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings i- Author: Mukasonga, Scholastique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1953861369
- Language: English
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A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
$16.99 Add to cartA beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith’s Ladies Detective series does for Botswana
For the past three years, the widower Mr. Mali- Author: Drayson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247958
- Language: English
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A Practical Guide to Levitation: Stories
$22.00 Read moreA luminous collection of dryly humorous stories that revel in the surreal and fantastic, from the pen of Jos? Eduardo Agualusa, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award
Perfect for readers of- Author: Agualusa, Jose Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861628
- Language: English
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No Edges: Swahili Stories
$16.95 Add to cartSwahili is the future. The first collection of Swahili fiction in English translation, No Edges introduces eight East African writers from Tanzania and Kenya as they share tales of sorcerers, Nairobi … [more below]
- Series: Calico #7
- Author: Coolidge, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641457
- Language: English
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Afterlives
$28.00 Add to cartONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ“ A NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAG- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 059354188X
- Language: English
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Afterlives
$18.00 Add to cartONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ“ A NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAG- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593541898
- Language: English
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By the Sea
$18.00 Add to cart“On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession–a mahogany box containing incense
- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593541995
- Language: English
