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Passages are selected and used to create a geography for a Kenyan urban center, which is then used to teach students the similarities between other cities. The novel's urban landscape serves to highlight the corruption and crime of the plot, but it is also a place where people live and move about in their daily lives, a concept few scholars ...
[1] According to the Los Angeles Times, "Not only is [the novel] set in 19th century England with a sprawling cast of characters high and low, but Charles Dickens himself makes an appearance, charming everyone except those who envy his success. But there's more to this brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog than a simple literary romp."
July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It is set in a near-future version of South Africa where apartheid is ended through a civil war. [1] Unlike Gordimer's earlier work, the novel was ignored by the apartheid government's censor, though the book's South African publisher was later raided by the Security ...
Books in the series have also won the Commonwealth Prize, the NOMA Award for African Writing, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2002, at a celebration of Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Heinemann was given a prize, as 12 of the titles chosen were from the series. [18]
The literary critic Alfred Kazin reviewed the novel for The New York Times: "What is best in this novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for August) is the atmosphere Mr. Paton conveys of the sultry, brooding tension in South Africa itself - that "heartless land" as the writer James Stern once called it...One understands better, after reading this novel, the hysterical abruptness and open ...
Bitter Fruit is a novel by Achmat Dangor first published in 2001 by Kwela Books of Cape Town.Set in South Africa in 1998, it is about the disintegration of a Coloured family in the years after the end of apartheid.
The novel is set in Sodom and Gomorrah, a suburb ghetto town in Ghana. It is mostly about Fofo, a fourteen year old street girl and the uncovering of the mystery behind the death of her sister, Baby T, (who was abused by their neighbour 'Onko' and given in to child prostitution [ 8 ] [ 9 ] ) by an NGO called MUTE.
On Books in the Media, the book was rated four out of five, based on five critic reviews. [6] In the November/December 2022 issue of Bookmarks , the book was scored four out of five. The magazine's critical summary reads: "In this profound chronicle of individuals and colonialism, Gurnah brings a new perspective by focusing on the intimate: the ...