Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (1152)
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AlgeriaDescription:
La doar cîteva luni după ce nu manifestase nici o umbră de sentiment la înmormîntarea mamei lui, protagonistul romanului Străinul, Meursault, ucide un arab. Este momentul cînd povestea se desparte. Mai întîi ne poartă spre trecut, unde asistăm la viaţa relativ banală a unui funcţionar din Alger: moartea mamei, prietenia cu vecinul Raymond, relaţia cu o fostă colegă de serviciu, ajutorul dat lui Raymond ca să se răzbune pe o iubită presupus infidelă. De aici însă lucrurile devin tot mai tensionate, căci iubita lui Raymond e algeriană, iar fratele ei &ic... continue
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Zabor by Kamel Daoud NL
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'Zabor' is een vertelling en duizelingwekkende bekentenis ineen, waarin het belang van fictie op schitterende wijze verbeeld wordt. Kamel Daoud – Zabor In ‘Zabor’ van Kamel Daoud, auteur van de internationale bestseller ‘Moussa of de dood van een Arabier’, neemt de jonge Algerijnse Zabor, met een overleden moeder enerzijds en een vader die hem heeft verstoten anderzijds, zijn toevlucht tot het lezen van boeken. Franse boeken, die niet alleen door de taal maar ook door de veelzijdige thema’s een nieuwe wereld aan hem openbaren. Zabor is er altijd van overtuigd geweest dat hij een gave heeft: zo... continue
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A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa EN
AngolaDescription:
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his... continue
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Good morning comrades : a novel by Ondjaki EN
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Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework assignments include writing essays on the role of the workers and peasants, and the tall tales he and his friends tell are about a criminal gang called Empty Crate which specializes in attacking schools. Ndalu is mystified by the family servant, Comrade Antonio, who thinks that Angola worked better when it was a colony of Portugal, and by his Aunt Dada, who liv... continue
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My Father's Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
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"Celebrated Angolan musician Faustino Manso has just died, leaving seven wives and eighteen children scattered across southern Africa. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, arrives in Angola from her home in Portugal to trace the story of the father she never knew." "My Father's Wives is the story of Laurentina's journey, but this fiction also runs in parallel with Jose Eduardo Agualusa's story of the novel's genesis, as writer and characters travel the southern African coast, from Angola, through Namibia and South Africa, to Mozambique, meeting extraordinary people and discovering Faustino's sec... continue
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The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
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Felix Ventura is a man with an unusual occupation. If your lineage isn't sufficiently distinguished, he'll change that for you. If your family history isn't quite as glorious as you'd like, he can make you a new one. Felix Ventura is a seller of pasts.
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A Practical Guide to Levitation : Stories by Jose Eduardo Agualusa EN
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A luminous collection of dryly humorous stories that revel in the surreal and fantastic, from the pen of José Eduardo Agualusa, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award Perfect for readers of Haruki Murakami, Julio Cortázar, and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Vividly translated into English for the first time by long-time Agualusa collaborator Daniel Hahn, the jewel-like tales gathered in this collection are an exuberant celebration of story-telling in all its various forms. On the sands of Itamaracá, an old fisherman dreams of fish: shad in the morning, when the water’s smooth and s... continue
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El vendedor de pasados by José Eduardo Agualusa ES
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Félix Ventura es un personaje peculiar. Además de ser albino, ha escogido un extraño oficio: vendedor de pasados falsos. Después de años de guerra, sus clientes –prósperos empresarios, políticos, generales y la emergente burguesía angoleña– tienen un futuro prometedor. Así que sólo les falta un pasado presentable. Félix les fabrica una genealogía de lujo, memorias felices, e incluso les procura los inevitables retratos de ancestros ilustres. Una noche llega un misterioso extranjero solicitando sus servicios y, de pronto, el pasado irrumpe en el presente en una trama que es también una original... continue
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Una niña está perdida en su siglo en busca de su padre by Gonçalo M. Tavares ES
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Marius, que parece huir de algo, se une a Hanna, una adolescente con Síndrome de Down, en la búsqueda de su padre. Los lugares que visitan y los personajes que conocen (así como los sueños) adquieren un valor simbólico que pretenden caracterizar el siglo XX. La modalidad recuerda a El Principito, en que la simpatía de Hannah le abre las puertas a los diversos mundos, aunque lo simbólico de cada caso es más complejo y también más inquietante. Aunque la redacción dificulta un poco la lectura, muy bueno.