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In the Country of Men
Year: 2006 | Published by: Penguin BooksSuleiman is a nine-year-old boy living in Tripoli, Libya. The book documents Suleiman’s life that is embroiled between a father …
The World Came to My Place Today
Year: 2004This 32 page entertaining storybook explains how plants from all over the world are used in our daily routines and …
A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali
Year: 2003This book is a love story told amid the backdrop of the world’s largest genocide in recent times. The Rwandan …
The Kite Runner
Year: 2003Banned under the Taliban, kite flying is once again now a national pastime in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner has probably …
The White Tiger
Year: 2008 | Published by: HarperCollins IndiaThe White Tiger tells the story of Balram, a former rickshaw-puller’s son from rural India who has reinvented himself as …
Kings of the Water
Year: 2009 | Published by: Abacus‘Kings of The Water’ tells the story of thirty-five year old Michiel Steyn returning to South Africa after a fifteen …
The Year of Living Dangerously
Year: 1974 | Published by: Penguin BooksSet in Jakarta just before and during the fall of Indonesian leader Sukarno in 1965, this novel is about a …
Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic
Year: 2011 | Published by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S Department of Health and Human ServicesThere are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. The zombie apocalypse is just one of …
Maru
Year: 1971“Maru” is set in a remote village in Botswana in the 1960s. The novel is an examination of racial prejudice …
A Fine Balance
Year: 1995Critics have lauded this book as one of the greatest novels of the late 20th century. Set in Bombay (now …
Burger’s Daughter
Year: 1979 | Published by: Viking PressSet in South Africa during the apartheid regime, this novel is about the beginning of a young white woman’s political …
The Famished Road
Year: 1991 | Published by: Anchor BooksBen Okri’s Booker prize-winning novel draws on the Nigerian belief in “spirit children” who die and are continuously reborn.
The Grass is Singing
Year: 1950 | Published by: Thomas Y. Crowell CompanyThis is Lessing’s first novel and tells the story of Dick and Mary Turner, ‘white’ farmers in a remote part …
Disgrace
Year: 1999 | Published by: Secker and WarburgThis Booker Prize winning novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, is about redemption, the shift in political power and the …
Allah is not Obliged
Year: 2007 | Published by: Anchor‘Allah is not obliged to be fair about the things he does on earth.’ These are the words from the …