Books from South Africa
126 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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Diario de un mal año by J. M. Coetzee ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
El Sr. C., que envejece, escribe varios ensayos por encargo de una editora, y contrata como dactilógrafa a la atractiva Anya, vecina de edificio, filipina, casada con un joven y ambicioso australiano (“con pecas en la espalda”).
La historia (cada página), transcurre en tres planos: el ensayo, y los “diarios” del Sr. C, y los pensamientos de Anya.
La lectura es inicialmente difícil (he utilizado varias técnicas para seguirlo), pero vale la pena: los ensayos tienen aportes originales y valiosos; y la pequeña historia que transcurre, re... continue
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Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated farm. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonize his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and dis... continue
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Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
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A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn... continue
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El Buen doctor by Damon Galgut ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Frank Eloff trabaja, desde hace siete años, como médico un hospital semiabandonado, en un pueblo fantasma, en un lugar remoto del país. Allí eligió esconderse después de una dolorosa separación.
En el hospital trabaja y convive desde su llegada con los mismos compañeros, en un clima de desidia y resignación en el cual no se siente incómodo.
Pero un día llega un joven médico, Laurence Waters, y provocará el efecto de una piedra que cae en el agua serena, e inicia un proceso de consecuencias imprevisible... continue
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El conservador by Nadine Gordimer ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
La única idea que Mehring, un industrial cincuentón y aún atractivo para las mujeres, tiene por clara en su vida es la que debe conservar a toda costa su modo de vida. Ni su amante izquierdista, ni su hijo —un colegial presuntuoso que lleva pelo largo, consiguen socavar su convicción de que tiene el derecho inalienable a seguir en posesión de sus bienes. Y nadie parece cuestionarlo : ni los trabajadores negros que cuidan de su finca en el Transvaal, ni los indios que venden los productos de su tierra, ni los hacenderos boers que le consideran un simple aficionado en los asuntos del campo, ni l... continue
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El maestro de Petersburgo by J. M. Coetzee ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Un novelista ruso exiliado regresa a San Petersburgo para conocer las circunstancias que rodean la muerte de su hijastro Pavel. Obsesivamente asediado por el recuerdo, se ve inmerso en la violencia revolucionaria de 1869.
J. M. Coetzee, premio Nobel de Literatura 2003, recrea la figura de Fiodor Dostoievski, el gran novelista del siglo XIX, en una obra de ficción que es a la vez un apasionante relato de misterio y un documentado retrato psicológico.
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Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is f-ted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she i... continue
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Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times by Kopano Matlwa EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A powerful and timely novel from 'South Africa's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' (Bookseller) . 'Heart-wrenching' Grazia . With urgency and tenderness Evening Primrose explores issues of race, gender and the medical profession through the eyes of a junior doctor. When Masechaba finally achieves her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, her ambition is tested as she faces the stark reality of South Africa's public healthcare system. As she leaves her deeply religious mother and makes friends with the politically-minded Nyasha, Masechaba's eyes are opened to the rising xenophobic tension that carries ... continue
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Florescencia by Kopano Matlwa ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Desde que era niña, Masechaba sueña con hacerse médico y salvar vidas. En una joven Sudáfrica que no ha cerrado en absoluto las heridas de su pasado, la medicina le parece una vía ideal para contribuir a apaciguar el sufrimiento de una sociedad todavía xenófoba, machista y supersticiosa. Pero a la vez que trata de aliviar el dolor ajeno ―trabajando en un hospital con pocos recursos y enfrentándose a diario con las penurias del sistema público de salud, que muchas veces pondrá a prueba su vocación― Masechaba tiene que ... continue