Popular African Drama Books

Find drama books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (12)

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The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.

12.

The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Morocco flag Morocco
Description:
A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.