Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

Year: 2009

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found …

The White Tiger

Year: 2008 | Published by: HarperCollins India

The 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 Books

Set in Jakarta just before and during the fall of Indonesian leader Sukarno in 1965, this novel is about a …

Maru

Year: 1971

“Maru” is set in a remote village in Botswana in the 1960s. The novel is an examination of racial prejudice …

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 …