Post Colonial Literature
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Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94643-0 (0-307-94643-6)
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94643-0 (0-307-94643-6)
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
Also available as an
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Out of Africa
Written by Isak Dinesen
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-60021-3 (0-679-60021-3)
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from... Read more >
Written by Isak Dinesen
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-60021-3 (0-679-60021-3)
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Ambiguous Adventure
Written by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Afterword by Wole Soyinka
Translated by Katherine Woods
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-054-9 (1-61219-054-5)
The celebrated classic by a groundbreaking figure in African literature addresses a critical contemporary issue–the collision of Islamic African values and Western culture
Hailed by Chinua Achebe as one of the greatest African novels ever written, this long-unavailable classic tells the tale of young Samba Diallo, a devout pupil in a Koranic... Read more >
Written by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Afterword by Wole Soyinka
Translated by Katherine Woods
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-054-9 (1-61219-054-5)
The celebrated classic by a groundbreaking figure in African literature addresses a critical contemporary issue–the collision of Islamic African values and Western culture
Hailed by Chinua Achebe as one of the greatest African novels ever written, this long-unavailable classic tells the tale of young Samba Diallo, a devout pupil in a Koranic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Devil-Devil
Introducing the Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita Series Set in the Solomon Islands
Written by Graeme Kent
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-060-6 (1-61695-060-9)
It’s not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities. In the past few days he has been... Read more >
Introducing the Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita Series Set in the Solomon Islands
Written by Graeme Kent
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-060-6 (1-61695-060-9)
It’s not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities. In the past few days he has been... Read more >
Mother to Mother
Written by Sindiwe Magona
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 15, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0949-9 (0-8070-0949-0)
Sindiwe Magona’s novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice. Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the... Read more >
Written by Sindiwe Magona
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 15, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0949-9 (0-8070-0949-0)
Sindiwe Magona’s novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice. Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the... Read more >
Half a Life
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70728-5 (0-375-70728-X)
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows... Read more >
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70728-5 (0-375-70728-X)
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows... Read more >
Also available as an
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In a Free State
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3055-2 (1-4000-3055-2)
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
In... Read more >
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3055-2 (1-4000-3055-2)
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
In... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Mystic Masseur
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70714-8 (0-375-70714-X)
In this slyly funny novel–his first–V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad.
In 1940s Trinidad masseurs were the medical practitioners of choice. Ganesh treats not... Read more >
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70714-8 (0-375-70714-X)
In this slyly funny novel–his first–V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad.
In 1940s Trinidad masseurs were the medical practitioners of choice. Ganesh treats not... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Season of Migration to the North
Written by Tayeb Salih
Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Introduction by Laila Lalami
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-302-2 (1-59017-302-3)
After many years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of... Read more >
Written by Tayeb Salih
Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Introduction by Laila Lalami
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-302-2 (1-59017-302-3)
After many years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of... Read more >
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