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Igifu
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Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Igifu written by Scholastique Mukasonga and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Fiction categories.
The stories in Igifu summon phantom memories of Rwanda and radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor. From the National Book Award finalist who Zadie Smith says, "rescues a million souls from the collective noun genocide." Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or igifu, gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent's bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor sweepings. Igifu becomes a dizzying hole in her stomach, a plunging abyss into which she falls. In a desperate act of preservation, Colomba's mother gathers enough sorghum to whip up a nourishing porridge, bringing Colomba back to life. This elixir courses through each story, a balm to soothe the pains of those so ferociously fighting for survival. Her writing eclipses the great gaps of time and memory; in one scene she is a child sitting squat with a jug of sweet, frothy milk and in another she is an exiled teacher, writing down lists of her dead. As in all her work, Scholastique sits up with them, her witty and beaming beloved.
The Barefoot Woman
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Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2018-12-18
The Barefoot Woman written by Scholastique Mukasonga and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice in a haunting work of art.
Imagine Africa
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Author : Mia Couto
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2015-05-05
Imagine Africa written by Mia Couto and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with Fiction categories.
Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.
Cockroaches
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Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2016-10-25
Cockroaches written by Scholastique Mukasonga and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mukasonga unsparingly resurrects the horrors of the Rwandan geocide while lyrically recording the quieter moments of daily life with her family—a moving tribute to all those who are displaced, who suffer. Mukasonga’s extraordinary, lyrical, and heartbreaking book … is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about the endurance of the human spirit and who hopes for a better world. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Los Angeles Review of Books Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is a compelling chronicle of the author’s childhood in the years leading up to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In a spare and penetrating tone, Mukasonga brings to life the scenes of her family’s forced displacement from Rwanda to neighboring Burundi. With a view made lucid through time and pain, Mukasonga erodes the distance between her present and her past, resurrecting and paying homage to her family members who were massacred in the genocide, but also, in movingly simple language, the beauty present in quiet, daily moments with her loved ones. As lyrical as it is tragic, Cockroaches is Mukasonga’s tribute to her family’s suffering and to the lingering grip of the dead on the living.
Our Lady Of The Nile
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Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2014-09-16
Our Lady Of The Nile written by Scholastique Mukasonga and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Fiction categories.
Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . “Mukasonga’s masterpiece” (Julian Lucas, NYRB) Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents’ preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country’s mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, prejudice, and persecution. With masterful prose that is at once subtle and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling towards horror.
Out Of Darkness Shining Light
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Author : Petina Gappah
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2020-02-18
Out Of Darkness Shining Light written by Petina Gappah and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Fiction categories.
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 2020 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: Petina Gappah's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative.' (Yaa Gyasi)This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country.The wise men of his age say Livingstone blazed into the darkness of their native land leaving a track of light behind where white men who followed him could tread in perfect safety. But in Petina Gappah's radical novel, it is those in the shadows of history - those who saved a white man's bones; his dark companions; his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - whose voices are resurrected with searing intensity. This final, fateful journey across the African interior is lead by Halima, Livingstone's sharp-tongued cook, and three of his most devoted servants: Jacob, Chuma and Susi. Their tale of how his corpse was borne out of nineteenth-century Africa - carrying the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation - has the power of myth. It is not only symbolic of slavery's hypocrisy, but a portrait of a world trembling on the cusp of total change - and a celebration of human bravery, loyalty and love.
How To Cook Your Husband The African Way
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Author : Calixthe Beyala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
How To Cook Your Husband The African Way written by Calixthe Beyala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Man-woman relationships categories.
The heroine falls in love with mysterious Bolobolo and attempts to win his love by preparing a variety of wonderful dishes for him. The novel is peppered throughout with recipes.
Ignored Racism
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Author : Mark D. Ramirez
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-25
Ignored Racism written by Mark D. Ramirez and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-25 with History categories.
Whites' animus toward Latinos is a fundamental force in American politics, uniquely shaping public opinion across a range of domains.
A Sense Of The Whole
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Author : Siamak Vossoughi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-03
A Sense Of The Whole written by Siamak Vossoughi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with categories.
The fable-like stories in A Sense of the Whole--reminiscent of the best of Kawabata, Hrabal, Lispector, and Kafka--feature characters who refuse to believe that we are unconnected, refuse to not aspire to the notion of the human family.
Kibogo
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Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-10
Kibogo written by Scholastique Mukasonga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10 with Rwanda categories.