African Literature and Drama
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African Folktales
Written by Roger Abrahams
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 12, 1983
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72117-0 (0-394-72117-9)
Selected and Retold by Roger D. Abrahams. This collection of nearly 100 stories illuminates a vast and ancient tradition of storytelling across the African continent. Out of the deep forest and the broad savannah, from the campsites, kraals, and villages of over forty tribes, the voices of the storytellers weave imaginative myths... Read more >
Written by Roger Abrahams
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 12, 1983
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72117-0 (0-394-72117-9)
Selected and Retold by Roger D. Abrahams. This collection of nearly 100 stories illuminates a vast and ancient tradition of storytelling across the African continent. Out of the deep forest and the broad savannah, from the campsites, kraals, and villages of over forty tribes, the voices of the storytellers weave imaginative myths... Read more >
Anthills of the Savannah
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26045-9 (0-385-26045-8)
Using the conflict between city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa. This novel describes power politics in an imaginary West African country, Kangan, 'where a military coup has brought to prominence... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26045-9 (0-385-26045-8)
Using the conflict between city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa. This novel describes power politics in an imaginary West African country, Kangan, 'where a military coup has brought to prominence... Read more >
Arrow of God
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-01480-9 (0-385-01480-5)
Winner of the New Statesman Award. Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-01480-9 (0-385-01480-5)
Winner of the New Statesman Award. Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. Read more >
Collected Poems
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7658-1 (1-4000-7658-7)
In this moving and powerful collection of poetry, acclaimed African writer Chinua Achebe deploys his prodigious literary gifts to produce verse that ranges from an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships. Achebe's poems... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7658-1 (1-4000-7658-7)
In this moving and powerful collection of poetry, acclaimed African writer Chinua Achebe deploys his prodigious literary gifts to produce verse that ranges from an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships. Achebe's poems... Read more >
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The Education of a British-Protected Child
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27255-3 (0-307-27255-9)
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses... Read more >
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27255-3 (0-307-27255-9)
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses... Read more >
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Girls at War
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 1991
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-41896-6 (0-385-41896-5)
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 1991
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-41896-6 (0-385-41896-5)
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis. Read more >
Home and Exile
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72133-2 (0-385-72133-1)
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile–the great Nigerian novelist’s first book in more than ten years–is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72133-2 (0-385-72133-1)
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile–the great Nigerian novelist’s first book in more than ten years–is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to... Read more >
Hopes and Impediments
Selected Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-41479-1 (0-385-41479-X)
One of most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming Eurocentrism in our appreciation of works of the imagination... Read more >
Selected Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-41479-1 (0-385-41479-X)
One of most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming Eurocentrism in our appreciation of works of the imagination... Read more >
A Man of the People
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 19, 1988
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-08616-5 (0-385-08616-4)
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 19, 1988
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-08616-5 (0-385-08616-4)
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds Read more >
No Longer at Ease
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 16, 1994
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47455-9 (0-385-47455-5)
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 16, 1994
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47455-9 (0-385-47455-5)
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. Read more >
Things Fall Apart
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47454-2 (0-385-47454-7)
Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first story traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives. It provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47454-2 (0-385-47454-7)
Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first story traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives. It provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between... Read more >
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9520-9 (1-4000-9520-4)
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor... Read more >
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9520-9 (1-4000-9520-4)
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor... Read more >
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Purple Hibiscus
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7694-9 (1-4000-7694-3)
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7694-9 (1-4000-7694-3)
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
The Thing Around Your Neck
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27107-5 (0-307-27107-2)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post... Read more >
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27107-5 (0-307-27107-2)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post... Read more >
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Tropical Fish
Tales From Entebbe
Written by Doreen Baingana
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Harlem Moon
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2510-5 (0-7679-2510-6)
“Baingana looks at contemporary Uganda in a way comparable to Edwidge Danticat’s approach to Haiti’s recent history. Tropical Fish makes the debut of a similarly unflinching, graceful new voice.”–David Anthony Durham, author of Gabriel’s Story and Walk Through Darkness
*Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Africa... Read more >
Tales From Entebbe
Written by Doreen Baingana
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Harlem Moon
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2510-5 (0-7679-2510-6)
“Baingana looks at contemporary Uganda in a way comparable to Edwidge Danticat’s approach to Haiti’s recent history. Tropical Fish makes the debut of a similarly unflinching, graceful new voice.”–David Anthony Durham, author of Gabriel’s Story and Walk Through Darkness
*Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Africa... Read more >
Zara's Tales
Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
Written by Peter Beard
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-42659-2 (0-679-42659-0)
From adventurer, explorer, photographer, writer, pied piper Peter Beard—eleven irresistible tales, told to his daughter in his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya, about life, about living, about Africa.
He writes of the East African hills he came to know so well over four decades, where time slows to infinity in a... Read more >
Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
Written by Peter Beard
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-42659-2 (0-679-42659-0)
From adventurer, explorer, photographer, writer, pied piper Peter Beard—eleven irresistible tales, told to his daughter in his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya, about life, about living, about Africa.
He writes of the East African hills he came to know so well over four decades, where time slows to infinity in a... Read more >
A Good Man in Africa
A Novel
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3002-6 (1-4000-3002-1)
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and... Read more >
A Novel
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3002-6 (1-4000-3002-1)
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and... Read more >
An Ice-Cream War
A Novel
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70502-1 (0-375-70502-3)
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best."
—The New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize Finalist
"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of [his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but... Read more >
A Novel
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70502-1 (0-375-70502-3)
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best."
—The New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize Finalist
"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of [his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but... Read more >
Acts of Faith
Written by Philip Caputo
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72597-5 (0-375-72597-0)
Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camelback, a journey that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa, and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to... Read more >
Written by Philip Caputo
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72597-5 (0-375-72597-0)
Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camelback, a journey that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa, and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to... Read more >
Horn of Africa
A Novel
Written by Philip Caputo
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72511-1 (0-375-72511-3)
Pulitzer Prize—winner Philip Caputo spins a gut-leveling story about a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.
When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage realizes he’s been coerced into becoming a mercenary in a guerilla war, he... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Philip Caputo
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72511-1 (0-375-72511-3)
Pulitzer Prize—winner Philip Caputo spins a gut-leveling story about a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.
When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage realizes he’s been coerced into becoming a mercenary in a guerilla war, he... Read more >
Hottentot Venus
A Novel
Written by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3208-2 (1-4000-3208-3)
In this extraordinary novel based on a true story, Chase-Riboud recounts the tragic life of Sarah Baartman, a South African herdswoman exhibited as a “scientific curiosity” in the capitals of nineteenth-century Europe. She re-creates in vivid, shocking detail the racism and sexism at the heart of European imperialism. In an unforgettable... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3208-2 (1-4000-3208-3)
In this extraordinary novel based on a true story, Chase-Riboud recounts the tragic life of Sarah Baartman, a South African herdswoman exhibited as a “scientific curiosity” in the capitals of nineteenth-century Europe. She re-creates in vivid, shocking detail the racism and sexism at the heart of European imperialism. In an unforgettable... Read more >
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Unconfessed
Written by Yvette Christianse
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: September 17, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-281-4 (1-59051-281-2)
Pen/Hemingway Award Finalist
Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed–and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg... Read more >
Written by Yvette Christianse
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: September 17, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-281-4 (1-59051-281-2)
Pen/Hemingway Award Finalist
Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed–and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Written by Gil Courtemanche
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3434-5 (1-4000-3434-5)
“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, this humanist story of an unlikely... Read more >
Written by Gil Courtemanche
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3434-5 (1-4000-3434-5)
“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, this humanist story of an unlikely... Read more >
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eBook.
The Power of One
A Novel
Written by Bryce Courtenay
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 29, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-41005-4 (0-345-41005-X)
In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams–which are nothing compared to what life... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Bryce Courtenay
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 29, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-41005-4 (0-345-41005-X)
In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams–which are nothing compared to what life... Read more >
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paperback.
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Written by Isak Dinesen
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72475-9 (0-679-72475-3)
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. They bought a coffee plantation in Kenya and from 1914 to 1931 she managed it, even after she and her husband separated. Her account of those years is transformed by the magical... Read more >
Written by Isak Dinesen
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72475-9 (0-679-72475-3)
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. They bought a coffee plantation in Kenya and from 1914 to 1931 she managed it, even after she and her husband separated. Her account of those years is transformed by the magical... Read more >
