An African Quilt
24 Modern African Stories
ISBN 9781101617441 | 400 pages | 31 Dec 2012 | Signet Classic | 18 - AND UP
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Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. With Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others The Museum by Leila Aboulela Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe A Private Experience by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Two Sisters by Ama Ata Aidoo First Kiss by Doreen Baingana Another Day at the Office by Steve Chimombo Inkalamu’s Place by Nadine Gordimer Cages by Abdulrazak Gurnah Lomba by Helon Habila Earth Love by Bessie Head Effortless Tears by Alexander Kanengoni Cardboard Mansions by Farida Karodia The Lemon Orchard by Alex La Guma The Second Hut by Doris Lessing Mrs. Plum by Es’kia Mphahlele Who Will Stop the Dark? by Charles Mungoshi The Middle Door by Grace Ogot Under New Pastoral Management by Tanure Ojaide The Power of a Plate of Rice by Ifeoma Okoye Voice of America by E. C. Osondu Eighteen-Ninety-Nine by Olive Schreiner The Suit by Can Themba Minutes of Glory by Ngugi wa Thiong’o N 2 by Zoe Wicomb |
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