Books from South Africa
127 popular south african books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Africa Challenge" were written by authors from South Africa.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
An epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-Earth, in which the tiny Hobbits play a key role.
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The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
When Laurence Waters arrives at his post in a rural hospital in new South Africa, and convinces Dr. Ruth Ngema, head of the hospital, to set up clinics in the villages, the crime and corruption that follow put everyone involved in danger.
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The Heart of Redness : A Novel by Zakes Mda EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the "new" South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid regime--to find his newly democratic country in a shambles. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
When Harald and Claudia's son, Duncan, murders a man with whom he had unusual relations, his parents' love, loyalty, and self-worth as nurturers are tested. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of None to Accompany Me. 40,000 first printing.
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by J. R. R. Tolkien EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
This previously unpublished work by Tolkien, written during the 1920s and '30s, makes available the author's extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Volsung and The Fall of the Niflungs.
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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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The Lying Days by Nadine Gordimer EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Helen Shaw is the daughter of white middle-class parents in a gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, her awareness of the African life around her grows. Her involvement with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.
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The Madonna of Excelsior : A Novel by Zakes Mda EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review Selection, Summer Reading, New York Times Book Review In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex bet... continue
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The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
In 1869, an exiled Russian novelist returns to St Petersburg to collect the effects of his dead stepson, Pavel. But the stepson's incriminating papers have been found by the Tsarist police and the novelist finds himself drawn into an underworld of suspicion, revolution and danger.