Books set in South Africa (104)


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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years : A Novel by Shubnum Khan EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE "Rich and swoony...an ambitious delight, with rich characters and some exceptionally lovely writing...This is the start of a major career." -- The New York Times Book Review AN INDIE NEXT PICK A LIBRARY READS PICK “A dark and heady dream of a book” (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse f... continue

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The Eternal Audience of One

The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije EN

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Country: Africa / Rwanda flag Rwanda
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"Reminiscent of Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon, this ... coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality"--

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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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A powerful fable originally published by Faber in 1983, translated by Nobel laureate and two-time Booker prize winner J. M. Coetzee.

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The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
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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 Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing EN

Rating: 3.5 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
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This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.

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The Heart of Redness : A Novel by Zakes Mda EN

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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 House Gun by Nadine Gordimer EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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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 House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Country: Asia / Malaysia flag Malaysia
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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.

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The Lazarus Effect by H. J. Golokai EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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The Lazarus Effect is a gripping new addition to the African crime genre from a talented debut author.

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The Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
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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