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Samahani by Abdelaziz Baraka
Samahani, the latest work by Sudanese author Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, winner of the 2020 Prix de la Littérture Arabe, means ‘forgive me’ in Swahili, two words that stand in stark contrast to everything that happens in this novel.
Set in 19th century Zanzibar, this is a dark story of slavery, cruelty and vengeance, that depict the agonies of the native Zanzibaris at the hands of both Europeans and Arabs, that turns their apparent island paradise into a living hell of cruelty and exploitation. Through the relationship between a spoilt, scheming, powerful Omani princess and her eunuch African slave Sundus, captured and castrated by Arab slavers, Sakin builds a grand narrative that paints a picture of barbarism and man’s inhumanity to man and becomes a furious cry against persecution in all its forms.
Temporary People: A Novel by Deepak U...
In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship, endures miserable living conditions, and is ultimately forced to leave the country. Until now, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called “guest workers” of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning, mind-altering debut novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories, myths, struggles, and triumphs.
Combining the irrepressible linguistic invention of Salman Rushdie and the satirical vision of George Saunders, Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked stories that careen from construction workers who shapeshift into luggage and escape a labor camp, to a woman who stitches back together the bodies of those who’ve fallen from buildings in progress, to a man who grows ideal workers designed to live twelve years and then perish―until they don’t, and found a rebel community in the desert. With this polyphony, Unnikrishnan brilliantly maps a new, unruly global English. Giving substance and identity to the anonymous workers of the Gulf, he highlights the disturbing ways in which “progress” on a global scale is bound up with dehumanization.
The Scattering by Lauri Kubuitsile
Against the backdrop of two of southern Africa's most brutal colonial wars at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Scattering traces the fates of two remarkable women whose paths cross after each has suffered the devastation and dislocation of war.
South-West Africa, 1904: When General Lothar von Trotha, military commander of the German colonial forces, issues the extermination order, the Herero people are forced to flee into the desert, seeking safety in British Bechuanaland. Tjipuka, a young Herero mother, escapes the massacre with her baby but is later captured and sent to work in the death camps of Lüderitz. There, she must find the courage - and the will - to survive against all odds.
The Transvaal, 1899: Riette's nursing ambitions are crushed when she is forced into marriage with an older neighbour. When he is taken captive and their farm is set ablaze under Britain's scorched-earth policy, she and his daughters must endure the horrors of the British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
A haunting and deeply moving historical novel, in which Kubuitsile weaves an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and a powerful reminder of history's forgotten atrocities.
BEFORE SHE BECAME A WIFE
Sibi’s Adventures in Alahtene
Meet Sibi, a vivacious, smart, and audacious girl who leaves the comforts of her coastal town and parents to live with Ndih, her granny in the village of Alahtene. Sibi’s integration into village life is swift and adventurous, aided by the ever-soothing supervision of her equally gallant grandmother and teenage uncle, Ajuenekoh. Recounted from the first person, we follow Sibi’s adventures in school, church, neighbourhoods, the rivers, hills and forests of Alahtene, its buzzy market and most significantly, around Ndih’s fireside. Set in the early 1960s, Sibi’s Adventures in Alahtene bubbles with dozens of breathtaking stories about the intrigues of adult life and childhood in a rural community rapidly integrating into a newly formed African country.
Kin: Oprah’s Book Club: A Novel...
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.
A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
The Meet Up by Muindi Kimanzi
The Love Root by Mwangi Ruheni
Some men are born unlucky. They never rise to the occasion not even when a woman is within two inches of them! In the case of Sam Njogu, a medical doctor, his problem cannot be cured by civilised medicine. He has to resort finallv to con- coctions of rhino horn. and what have you. And this bush medicine works to the extent that he even appears in court on a charge of rape. But in his attemnpt to get this life--giving medicine. Njogu risks his professional status by allowing himself to be blackmailed into giving a false report to the police con- cerning the death of a one-day old baby at the Smiles Maternity Home owned by his friend Dr. Alex Wanjau
In typical Mwangi Ruheni vein. this story is hilariously entertaining in its treatment of themes such as crime. adventure. love, blackmail. in an environ- ment which is all too familiar to us.
Tiga Kurira, Mwana by Ngugi Wa Thiong...
Tiga Kūrīra, Mwana
Igürü rĩa maūndū mothe, Njoroge ni eriragiria gūthoma ta mūriű wa gītang'a kĩa ürīmi, Jakubu, üría warīkītie gūthoma gïthomo giothe gĩa Kenya, na rĩu arī athiï bürüri wa Ngeretha. Ithe wa Njoroge, Ngotho, arutaga wira kwa Bwana Howland, thükümü yaumïte Ngeretha, na o eri, na njira ciatiganīte, nĩ maiguaga wendo münene wa tīri mūnoru ürĩa marīmaga. Nakuo thukuru, Njoroge arī njorua ya gūthoma: gīthomo nikio kīarī bungūro ya műtūrīre wa hau kabere. Rīrĩa Jomo aikirio ngono na watho wa imanjenici ügītangathwo, gūtiagïire na ūgarürüku kïambīrīriainī andū othe nīmoĩ Jomo nĩ ekühootana. No müthenya ümwe Ngotho nĩ aikirio ngono na akīnyarirwo. Ariű a ithe na Njoroge nĩ mathamſire műcii műnene wa Nairobi, na angĩ magīthiĩ műtitű kūnyitanīra na itungati cia kűrűīra wīyathi. Thutha wa kahinda gataarī coho, andű othe a nyŭmba ya Ngotho nĩ magucītio mbarainî îrĩa yatuïkire gīcanjama kĩa műthenya o müthenya.
The Prodigal Daughter by Mirigo Kinya...
It is every girl's dream to live a life that is close to a fairy tale, and so was Luna's before misfortunes followed her. She lost her children to a thieving barren rich woman who could not bear kids of her own. With a dead father and a lost family and a vanished boyfriend, she had no choice but to serve as a maid despite being a top actuarial science graduate, if only to have her children back. Life has a way of punishing the loser and the gainer as they both fight to keep their status.
The Odyssey by Homer Translated by Da...
With this edition of Homer’s Odyssey, the celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic to vividly poetic new life. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in The New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of The Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, he artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities―meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance―and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.
The result is the richest, most ample, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, conveying the beauty of its poetry, the excitement of its hero’s adventures, and the profundity of its insights. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Daniel Mendelsohn’s Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative version of this magnificent and enduringly influential masterpiece.
Taking A Leap
Before All The Leaves Are Gone
WHEN LOVE COSTS TOO MUCH
When Love Costs Too Much
She gave everything. He took it all. Now she must decide what’s left to save — her marriage, her voice, or herself. In this haunting, lyrical novel by Sonnie Sonny, love becomes both sanctuary and battlefield. When Love Costs Too Much asks the question every heart fears: how do you love without losing yourself?Cracking the Nut (Novel)
In a quiet village of Mbiami, where dreams are often buried beneath poverty and tradition, young girl-Satina dares to hope for more. Faced with relentless obstacles, social expectation, cultural barriers and the daily struggle to survive, she clings to education as her only escape. But the journey is uncertain and every step forward comes at a cost. Will Satina rise above the weight of her circumstance or be pulled back by the forces around her? Dive into this thrilling and suspenseful story and journey with Satina as she fights against all odds to shape her destiny.
WANYITA: Moans of Pleasure…Evid...
George Bahati meets Veronica Magara by chance on a flight home to Uganda. Before they can discover where their unexpected attraction might lead, the plane crashes in a remote forest, leaving them among the few survivors.
What begins as a story of survival and love soon turns into something darker.
When Veronica is found dead, George becomes the prime suspect—and the lawyer who once defended others must now defend himself.
Wanyita is a provocative and irreverent novel about love, survival, death and the fragile line between truth and justice.