African
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Oedipus Tyrannos: A Norton Critical Edition
$14.61 Read moreEmily Wilson’s superb translation of Sophocles’ best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator’s note, and explanatory footnotes.
Comparative ancient sources that provide insigh… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393655148
- Language: English
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The Desert and the Drum
$15.99 Read moreThe Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2016. Everything changes for Rayhana when foreigners with strange ma… [more below]
- Author: Beyrouk, Mbarek Ould
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1910213799
- Language: English
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Poems of Arab Andalusia
$15.95 Add to cartThese poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa’id, who wanted poems “whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose l
- Author: Franzen, Cola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862429
- Language: Spanish
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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In the Presence of Absence
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 National Translation Award
“What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoymen… [more below]- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 1935744011
- Language: English
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Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor
$12.95 Read moreJuha is an old Arab comic literary figure (known also to Persians and Turks) around whom countless popular anecdotes were written. He appears variously as preacher and beggar, porter and petty merchan… [more below]
- Author: Jayyusi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 156656641X
- Language: English
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Midnight and Other Poems
$19.99 Add to cartA collection of poems of Mourid Barghouti who spent many years in exile.
- Series: ARC Translation
- Author: Barghouti, Mourid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 190461468X
- Language: English
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartSpanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s e… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Babikir, Adil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149621563X
- Language: English
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You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation
Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the tr
- Author: Abu Al-Hayyat, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 1571315403
- Language: English
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Season of Migration to the North
$15.95 Add to cartAfter years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to th… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Salih, Tayeb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1590173023
- Language: English
