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The Granta Book of the African Short Story

Helon Habila
The Granta Book of the African Short Story Book PDF

Author : Helon Habila
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847084385

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The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila Pdf

Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.

African Short Stories: Vol 1

Ce, Chin
African Short Stories Vol 1 Book PDF

Author : Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783603578

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African Short Stories: Vol 1 by Ce, Chin Pdf

The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions. In partnership with Progeny international, the Lsi aims to assess and promote the emergence of works of visionary creative impetus in the genres of modern African fiction, non-fiction and visual arts. 38 stories are included in this anthology.

How to Write About Africa

Binyavanga Wainaina
How to Write About Africa Book PDF

Author : Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher : One World
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812989663

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How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina Pdf

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality “A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian “Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.” Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Wainaina’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation “How to Write About Africa.” Working fearlessly across a range of topics—from politics to international aid, cultural heritage, and redefined sexuality—he describes the modern world with sensual, emotional, and psychological detail, giving us a full-color view of his home country and continent. These works present the portrait of a giant in African literature who left a tremendous legacy.

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

Richard Ford
The Granta Book of the American Short Story Book PDF

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 184708978X

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The Granta Book of the American Short Story by Richard Ford Pdf

The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. -- Publisher details.

African Short Stories: Vol 2

Chin Ce
African Short Stories Vol 2 Book PDF

Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783703698

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African Short Stories: Vol 2 by Chin Ce Pdf

Bequeathing an enduring tenet for the creative enterprise, African Short Stories vol 2 boldly seeks to upturn the status quo by the art of narration. Whether they are stories of the whistle blower estranged and yet sounding the warning for heaven and earth to hear, or a ragtag army fleeing in the wake of a monstrous reptilian onslaught upon her peace, there pervades a sense of ultimate victory in this collection. We can feel the gentle kick of a baby in the womb of a maiden in desperation, or we can muse at the two adolescent genii on the trail of their dreams from the sunset of mutual deceit into the daylight of true becoming. Victory is laid out in that awesome kindness of a total stranger which affirms the divinity latent in even our most harrowing existence. With thirty five stories in two parts these literary experiments compel attention to the courageous hearts and minds that brighten the African universe of narration. Their vibrant notes coming from all corners of north, west, east and south fill us with encouragement and optimism for the contemporary short fiction in Africa.

Let's Tell This Story Properly

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Let s Tell This Story Properly Book PDF

Author : Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459730571

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Let's Tell This Story Properly by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey Pdf

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.

Say You're One of Them

Uwem Akpan
Say You re One of Them Book PDF

Author : Uwem Akpan
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316032520

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Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan Pdf

An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. One of the best books of the year: Wall Street Journal, People, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book World, and Entertainment Weekly

One Day I Will Write About This Place

Binyavanga Wainaina
One Day I Will Write About This Place Book PDF

Author : Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847084507

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One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina Pdf

Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family, tribe, and nationhood. Throughout, reading is his refuge and his solace. And when, in 2002, a writing prize comes through, the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. Resolutely avoiding stereotype and cliche, Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive and hugely memorable brush.

Happiness, Like Water

Chinelo Okparanta
Happiness Like Water Book PDF

Author : Chinelo Okparanta
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544003453

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Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta Pdf

A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.

Granta 117

John Freeman
Granta 117 Book PDF

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Granta
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781905881451

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Granta 117 by John Freeman Pdf

The Horror issue features original cover artwork by Jake and Dinos Chapman and a line-up of contributors that includes some of the greatest names in contemporary fiction. Stephen King tells the story of a retired judge with a deadly secret. Don DeLillo imagines a moviegoer-turned-stalker and Paul Auster writes of his mother's death. Rajesh Parameswaran dips into the mind of a tiger who escapes from a zoo and terrorizes a neighbourhood. Will Self writes of his blood disease and Daniel Alarcon explores the phenomenon of staged, high-camp blood baths. Mark Doty ruminates on a close encounter between Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker. CONTRIBUTORS: Daniel Alarcon, Paul Auster, Tom Bamforth, Roberto Bolano, Don DeLillo, Mark Doty, Sarah Hall, Stephen King, Kanitta Meechubot (artist), Julie Ostuka, D.A. Powell (poem), Rajesh Parameswaran, Santiago Roncagliolo, Will Self, Joy Williams.

Under African Skies

Charles Larson
Under African Skies Book PDF

Author : Charles Larson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374525501

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Under African Skies by Charles Larson Pdf

Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a new generation of writers. Powerful, intriguing and essentially non-Western, these stories will be welcome by an audience truly ready for multicultural voices.

The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story

Anne Enright
The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story Book PDF

Author : Anne Enright
Publisher : Granta Anthologies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1847082556

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The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story by Anne Enright Pdf

The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.

Feast, Famine and Potluck

Karen Jennings
Feast Famine and Potluck Book PDF

Author : Karen Jennings
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780620588867

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Feast, Famine and Potluck by Karen Jennings Pdf

A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.

Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa

Macsmart Ojiludu,Kanyinsola Olorunnisola,Najwa Bin Shatwan,Nadia Ahidjo-Iya,Innocent Ilo,Melusi Nkomo,Victor Forna,Nicholas Dawn,Genna Gardini,Philisiwe Twijnstra,Doreen Anyango,Masiyaleti Mbewe,Julia Smuts Louw,Liam Brickhill,Jacob M'Hango,Gomolemo Mogotsi,Mbozi Haimbe,Idza Luhumyo,Alithnayn Abdulkareem,Yefon Isabelle,Edwin Okolo
Disruption New Short Fiction from Africa Book PDF

Author : Macsmart Ojiludu,Kanyinsola Olorunnisola,Najwa Bin Shatwan,Nadia Ahidjo-Iya,Innocent Ilo,Melusi Nkomo,Victor Forna,Nicholas Dawn,Genna Gardini,Philisiwe Twijnstra,Doreen Anyango,Masiyaleti Mbewe,Julia Smuts Louw,Liam Brickhill,Jacob M'Hango,Gomolemo Mogotsi,Mbozi Haimbe,Idza Luhumyo,Alithnayn Abdulkareem,Yefon Isabelle,Edwin Okolo
Publisher : Catalyst Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1946395579

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Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa by Macsmart Ojiludu,Kanyinsola Olorunnisola,Najwa Bin Shatwan,Nadia Ahidjo-Iya,Innocent Ilo,Melusi Nkomo,Victor Forna,Nicholas Dawn,Genna Gardini,Philisiwe Twijnstra,Doreen Anyango,Masiyaleti Mbewe,Julia Smuts Louw,Liam Brickhill,Jacob M'Hango,Gomolemo Mogotsi,Mbozi Haimbe,Idza Luhumyo,Alithnayn Abdulkareem,Yefon Isabelle,Edwin Okolo Pdf

These stories by new and emerging writers from the continent of Africa all tackle the theme of 'Disruption' in ingenious ways and represent a range of genres, from Innocent Ilo's imaginative exploration of a post-apocalyptic African village, to Victor Forna's stylistic take on the destruction of humanity. Masiyaleti Mbewe's brutal tale of Apartheid and climate change through the eyes of a time-traveling cyborg sits alongside Genna Gardini's diverting allegory of companionship and an escaped exotic pet. The 2021 anthology features stories from across the continent, from Libya to Sierra Leone to Zambia to South Africa, and also includes a translated story, 'Armando's Virtuous Crime' by Najwa Bin Shatwan, translated from Arabic into English by Sawad Hussain.

Jambula Tree

Monica Arac de Nyeko
Jambula Tree Book PDF

Author : Monica Arac de Nyeko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904456731

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Jambula Tree by Monica Arac de Nyeko Pdf

The Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, is for a short story published in English by a writer of African origin. Each year, the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and published in one volume. The eighth winner is Monica Arac de Nyeko from Uganda for Jambula Tree. Chair of Judges Jamal Mahjoub from Sudan describes her story as a witty and touching portrait of a community which is affected forever by a love which blossoms between two adolescents.''