The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of
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BIOGRAPHY Herman “Kofi” Bailey 1931-1981 “Herman “Kofi” Bailey was born in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois and studied at Alabama State College, later
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Summary: Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola’s writing and the stories collected here are no exception.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkQXV7uiYM “A lost masterpiece of American literature about the creative evolution of a young Black woman in California and her intense relationship
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLstgifzAg An “extraordinary, ambitious” (The Times UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world—from the award-winning
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFF-kZm1vnA Summary: The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New
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Summary: A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle. A Leopard-Skin
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Synopsis: Prof is an ex-prisoner, activist and retired academic, who resolves to live a life of darkness after his release from prison.
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Synopsis: In 2004, late in her legendary career, Ágota Kristóf wrote this slim dagger of a memoir about being a refugee
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