General Books


Things Fall Apart: A Novel Best Price: $3.70 I absolutely HATED reading this book. I respect it as a very popular piece of literature, but in...	Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club) Best Price: $1.69 This is an excellent book. We are travelling to South Africa next year and this book gives an...	Say You're One of Them Best Price: $12.53 When psychologists treat childhood victims of trauma - war, violence or sexual abuse - they will...	Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond Novels) Best Price: $2.86 It's been said that Ian Fleming was a brilliant travel writer trapped in the body of a...	Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) Best Price: $8.36 The Nobel Prize committee has a history of honoring writers with a strong political or social...



Disgrace Best Price: $2.79 The first book I read by Coetzee was 'The Life and Times of Michael K'. It was difficult to get...	The Famished Road Best Price: $3.38 And like the title, it will take you on a long and strange (for Western eyes) journey. I liked...	Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Penguin Plays) Best Price: $4.59 Our theater group decided to do this play this season. I'm ashamed to say I had not heard of it...	The River Between (AWS African Writers Series) Best Price: $7.00 Ngugu wa Thiong'o's two ridges are rivals to the political and spiritual salvation of the...	July's People Best Price: $2.94 This may be Gordimer's most popular book for reasons that say a lot about readers' expectations....



Collected Plays: Volume 1 (Includes a Dance of the Forests/the Swamp Dwellers/the Strong Breed/the Road/the Bacchae of Euripides) Best Price: $10.15 This, Volume 1 of the collected plays by Nigerian-born Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for...	Ake: The Years of Childhood Best Price: $7.92 The novel is quite good, however certain words and phrases do not add much meaning to the trend...	A Man of the People Best Price: $6.61 I haven't read all of Achebe's works, but so far this is the best. There are two main reasons:...	The Conservationist Best Price: $0.01 Oddly enough, I could appreciate the magnificent density of this book less from reading it than...	The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series) Best Price: $10.70 This small book provides a wonderfully insightful perspective on the issues surrounding...

Measuring Time: A Novel Best Price: $7.95 This book was told in such a 'peaceful' tempo that you are immediately and suddenly pulled in. ...	Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel Best Price: $5.43 "Michael K" is not your grandma's South African novel. It would be expected that this...	Arrow of God Best Price: $5.88 "Arrow of God" is another excellent novel by the world renowned Chinua Achebe. I have...	Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Best Price: $7.00 If one has any doubt that liberal democracies are still relevant in the world one must read...	Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories Best Price: $10.50 We read this book for our book club and all of us were underwhelmed. The stories were...

In the Heart of the Country: A Novel Best Price: $6.41 Magda is a lonely and embittered spinster who lives on a sheep farm in the heart of South...	The Pickup Best Price: $6.49 This novel is a must read for both Gordimer fans and those new to her work. It addresses...	The Heart of Redness: A Novel Best Price: $6.50 The novel Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda, tells a tale of rural integration and religious...	Devil on the Cross (African Writers Series) Best Price: $11.04 Amazing book by an amazing author! The seller sent my item quickly after i purchased it at a...	Elizabeth Costello Best Price: $2.92 Others have justly praised this work for daring to be philosophical. It is certainly that and in...

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series) Best Price: $13.50 The book arrived a lot earlier than the estimated delivery date and in good condition. My only...	Joys of Motherhood Best Price: $2.98 The title is ironic, the subject matter is often disturbing and the story is riveting. While...	Your Roots Are Showing Best Price: $1.98 Reviewed by Danielle Feliciano for Reader Views (11/08) I picked up "Your Roots are...	The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $7.29 As the specialized critics have established this short novel was a preparation for Musil's tour...	Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $13.49 I love each and every one of these books. If you love realistic Egypt you will love these...

A Far-Off Place Best Price: $3.42 I love this movie! I first saw it when I was a freshman in High School, and I now use it to...	Song for Night Best Price: $2.95 Well-written story of an Igbo child soldier in West Africa, a mine diffuser separated from his...	A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series) Best Price: $14.95 i had to read this book for a class at college and coiuld hardly make my way through it. the...	Foe: A Novel (King Penguin) Best Price: $2.99 On its surface, Foe is a re-imagining of the classic Robinson Crusoe story from the perspective...	Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) Best Price: $54.00 During the 1960s and early 1970s, a majority of Ethiopian students and intellectuals adopted a...

African Short Stories (AWS African Writers Series) Best Price: $7.88 This is a great collection of stories. Too often the artistic talent in Africa is overloooked...	Petals of Blood Best Price: $8.37 Primary schoolteacher Godfrey Munira requests a posting at a far-away, rural location, hoping to...	Becoming Abigail Best Price: $2.28 The life of a woman-child who could have been any one of us is exactly what Becoming Abigail...	When Rain Clouds Gather (AWS African Writers Series) Best Price: $8.47 I had purchased this book years ago while in college and it was just taking up space on my...	Age of Iron Best Price: $6.34 The protagonist of this book is dying of cancer. The book is structured as a letter she is...

Ways of Dying: A Novel Best Price: $6.50 I loved this book; and I cannot tell why. For me it was one of those disturbing reads that I...	Half of a Yellow Sun Best Price: $10.00 Once you start reading HALF OF A YELLOW SUN, you'll find it hard to put it aside. What starts...	The Last Summer of Reason Best Price: $8.68 Tahar Djaout's story is a "must read" for a number of reasons. First, for the English...	Girls at War Best Price: $7.19 Very impressed. I am glad I read it again after all these years. The story of the Mad Man is...	Brighton Rock Best Price: $7.56 Graham Green always insisted that he was a "writer who was Catholic" rather than a...

The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.34 and our local crime as well. The Threepenny Opera is so well known and sought after (without...	Second-Class Citizen Best Price: $7.38 In this loosely veiled autobiography, Emecheta sets out to tell the story of Adah, a young...	Weep Not, Child (African Writers) Best Price: $7.00 The story concerns itself with an important period in the life of the author's tribe in Kenya in...	Fire Best Price: $0.49 This book is a collection of Junger's articles. As such, it feels a little disjointed. The...	Jump and Other Short Stories Best Price: $0.99 This is a different kind of book for the average one's out their. But I needed it for my English...

The Master of Petersburg: A Novel Best Price: $5.00 In most of the literary journals they tell us that Dostoyevsky use a lot of its own sufferings...	Slow Man Best Price: $2.75 This was my least favorite Coetzee book, and I've read all the fiction. I had recently read...	Assegai Best Price: $18.45 It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East...	Too Late The Phalarope Best Price: $2.86 Until I read "Too Late the Phalarope," I could not imagine a novel richer and more...	Favorite African Folktales Best Price: $8.00 "It is my wish that the voice of the storyteller never die in Africa."-Nelson Mandela,...

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II Best Price: $7.44 This book by South African writer J. M. Coetzee is not exactly an autobiography, as it recounts...	Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life Best Price: $5.91 In this youth memories, J.M. Coetzee defines himself as `twice-born: `born from woman and born...

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