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Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature
Year: 0 | Published by: International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)Bookbird is a quarterly peer reviewed journal that “aims to communicate new ideas to the whole community of readers interested …
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 …
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo
Year: 2000 | Published by: Fourth Estate LondonThis thrilling book recounts the extravagant tyranny of Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) for …
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 …