Book type: fiction (8808)
8431.
Waiting for the Rain by Charles Mungoshi EN
ZimbabweDescription:
The award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi is recognised in Africa, and internationally, as one of the continent's most powerful writers today. This early novel deals with the pain and dislocation of the clash of the old and new ways - the educated young man determined to go overseas, and the elders of the family believing his duty is to stay and head the family.
8432.
Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma EN
Country: Africa / 
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast
Description:
"Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights mystical beasts, and is a shape-shifter, capable of changing himself into beasts and birds. He fights in the French colonial armies, in Vietnam and Algeria, but on his return he mounts a coup and becomes ruler and distator of the Gulf Coast. For thrity years he runs a corrupt but 'clean' state, survi... continue
8433.
Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War by Goretti Kyomuhendo EN
UgandaDescription:
Ugandans in a remote but closely knit community survive the end of Idi Amin's rule.
8434.
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Sondra Silverston EN
IsraelDescription:
A neurosurgeon runs an illegal immigrant over in his car. There are no witnesses, and the man will die in any case-so why endanger his career and report the accident? But the next day, the victim's wife knocks on the doctor's door and makes him an offer which will completely derail his well-ordered life. How would we have acted in the same situation? This question hovers over this compelling and timely novel by an award-winning author, which masterfully explores the boundary between love and hate, guilt and forgiveness, good and evil.
8435.
Walk Me to the Corner by Anneli Furmark EN
SwedenDescription:
"Elise is middle aged and satisfied in her marriage with her husband when she meets Dagmar. What ensues is an affair that unsettles her whole life. A portrait of middle-age relationships and sexuality."--
8436.
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan EN
IrelandDescription:
Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 2007.
8437.
Walker on Water by Kristiina Ehin EN
EstoniaDescription:
A woman cultivates a knack for walking on water, but is undermined by her husband's brain, which he removes each night when he returns home from work; a couple overcomes the irksome mischief of the gods; a skeptical dragon wonders what sex is all about: this is the world of Kristiina Ehin. From the 2007 British Poetry Society Popescu prize winner for European poetry in translation: a series of comic, surreal adventures. Kristiina Ehin's quirky voice takes each story directly from the dream state, at times stubborn and resistant, at other times masochistically compliant. Ehin offers up modern f... continue
8438.
Walking : A Novella by Thomas Bernhard EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
"Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad."--Amazon.com.
8439.
Walking on Cowrie Shells : Stories by Nana Nkweti EN
CameroonDescription:
A virtuosic debut collection that roves across genres and styles, by a finalist for the Caine Prize In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti’s virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story “It Takes a Village, Some Say,” Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes. In “The Devil Is a Liar,” a pregnant pastor’s wife struggles with the collision of western Chr... continue
8440.
Walking Practice : A Novel by Dolki Min EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
"The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity is a disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious humans? They chooses their prey, shifts their gender, appearance, and conduct based on the prey's sexual preference, only to attack at the pivotal moment of their encounter. They has found ways to adapt... continue