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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Novels set in Africa by country (35 C) G. ... (Shaara novel) Roots: The Saga of an American Family; S.
Set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa, it follows a black village priest and a white farmer who must deal with news of a murder. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading…
The following is a list of notable works of fiction which are set in South Africa: Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee; Karoo Boy by Troy Blacklaws; Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer; The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer; Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful by Alan Paton; Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton; Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton ...
The novel is set in South Africa, home to five distinct populations: Bantu (native Black tribes), Coloured (the result of generations of racial mixture between persons of European descent and the indigenous occupants of South Africa along with slaves brought in from Angola, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and the east Coast of Africa), British, Afrikaner, and Indian, Chinese, and other foreign ...
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel [1] by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.It tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
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The novel became the subject of controversy when it was revealed that author Alex Haley had plagiarized sections of The African for his own 1976 novel Roots, [3] which later was made into a 1977 television miniseries, [4] a 1979 sequel miniseries, and a 2016 television miniseries remake.