Traces
the growing friction between village leaders and Europeans
determined to save the heathen souls of
Africa
. But its hero, a noble man who is driven by destructive forces,
speaks a universal tongue.
Growing
up in a wealthy Nigerian home with a tyrannical father, Kambili
and her brother, find happiness during a visit to their Aunty
Ifeoma, but as Kambili enjoys her freedom and falls in love, the
country begins to fall under a military coup.
Coetzee,
J.M. / Life
and times of Michael K Set in
a turbulent
South Africa
, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the
violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but
finds that war follows wherever he goes.
A
young apolitical reporter, Lomba’s life is shattered as he
witnesses such horrifying events as his roommate's brutal attack
by soldiers, his lover's forced marriage, and his neighbors'
riot-inducing demonstration.
At
the end of World War I, al-Sayyid Ahmad explores
Cairo
at night while his family stays at home living according to the
Qur'an. The first voume of the
Cairo
trilogy.
As
his parents struggle to put food on the table, Azaro, a little boy
living in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial
rule, battles the evil spirits who are tempting him
A
story set against the civil unrest of
Zimbabwe
in the early 1980s finds two sisters from the country town of
Kezi
struggling for survival in the face of terrible brutality and with
the rival temptations of town and city life.
