Men Without Women
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Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.
Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.
Author: Haruki Murakami
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He is speaking in a hushed tone, as if this is a forbidden subject. ‘He said there were twins here, boys. He said their father died on the day they were born.’ He stops and squints as if trying to remember something. ‘I’m not sure if I’m getting the story right, but there were other twins before, but they all died. The father must have done something because these two lived, only them, and then he died. They were good children, that’s what my father said, but then one day they must have been 14 years old…’ He stops when he hears a gasp.
‘What happened? What did they do?’ Qhawe asks. ‘They killed a priest. He was one of those that were recruiting people o join a church, and most people here believed him and followed him. He built a school and stuff. The twins went to that school. But he must have made them very angry because…’ ‘How did they kill him?’-Mqhele
The man shrugs before he speaks. ‘From what I was told, they slit his throat and left him sitting on a chair, bleeding to death.’ There’s silence. The man is telling the story like its an urban legend, but they know, it is a familiar one. ‘Is that what you wanted to know?’ the man asks, looking at Sisekelo. He doesn’t answer. ‘So, what happened to the twins’ mother?’ Qhawe asks. The man sighs deeply. ‘They burnt her alive.’
Author: Dudu Busani-Dube
Thirtieth birthday loom… Skeletons comes creeping out of closets….
How will this birthday end?
Linda has just cast off yet another lover, while Dikeledi cant seem to pin har fast talking lawyer down to talk about marriage. Nolwazi has a secret.. one she cant share even with her closest friends, while Sade has found the perfect man, and a new life that will shut out the horrors of her past forever. Or will it…?
Linda Dikeledi, Nolwazi and Sade are about to discover more than the wisdom that comes with being a year older. after all they are young, gifted and black in a becoming new South Africa.
Author: Angela Makholwa
Marechera made an immediate impact with the publication of The House of Hunger. The novella and nine short stories, most of them set in Zimbabwe, symbolise both home and country as the ‘house of hunger’, the place of madness and violence and despair. Marechera describes a world in which tenderness has long given way to the tactics of survival, and he does so in a style at once explosive and loaded with angry humour.
Author(s): Dambudzo Marechera
“A haunting evocation of the nature of small defeats. Only a writer steeped in Zimbabwean life – with her unflinching gaze fixed on the individual, and with a social vision that brooks no sentimentality – could have given us the fraught heroine of this starkly written novel. Tsitsi Dangarembga proves yet again that hers in a maverick voice”
“When Tambudzai first set out to rebuild the financial and social status she spent her youth working for, she could not have known that every move she made would bring her one step closer to sacrificing the dignity of her family and community. her choices seem innocuous; she moves from a run down youth hostel in downtown Harare to a widow’s boarding house, and she finds work, first as a biology teacher and then in the opportunistic field of “ecotourism”. But when a long overdue homecoming culminates in a humiliating spectacle, tambudzai is forced to consider whether it was her circumstances or her decisions that brought her to this breaking point.”
Author:Tsitsi Dangarembga
Dumped at the altar, shame and the bitter taste of rejection drive a teenage girl from the sheltered rural lands of Swaziland to the hard streets of Johannesburg. Forsaking the riches of her former life, she manages to build herself up from bartending to the respectable offices of a reputable law firm.
Dumped at the altar, shame and the bitter taste of rejection drive a teenage girl from the sheltered rural lands of Swaziland to the hard streets of Johannesburg. Forsaking the riches of her former life, she manages to build herself up from bartending to the respectable offices of a reputable law firm. Her tranquility is shattered when the same arrogant devil who almost drove her to suicide through his rejection, comes back into her life, claiming and marking her as his wife.
Nomaswazi is forced to come back home a prodigal daughter when her father’s health takes a turn for the worst.
Her father had always cocooned her from the harsh truths of her birth but even he couldn’t protect her from the revelations which awaited her in the rustic hills of Maphalaleni. Her character is tested again and again, the only person she is left to rely on is the charcoal eyed devil who left her reeling.
Author: Busisekile Khumalo
Dying in New York is a haunting story of Lerato Malema, a young and irrepressible South African whose wit and resilience shine through despite the abuse she has endured from before the age of twelve at the hands of her father, Thabo.
The narrative opens in a psychiatrist’s office overlooking the Hudson river. Against a backdrop of the magnificent Manhattan skyline, Lerato paints an absorbing picture of her decade long journey from Johannesburg to the united States. Her story transitions seamlessly from the sessions with Dr Evelyn Webber, her psychiatrist, to her escape from an abusive home and her experience of the underbelly of modern South Africa.
At its heart, Dying in New York is a story of hope and deep longing, made all the poignant by Lerato’s startling candour from the first page until the book’s surprising conclusion.
Author: Ekow Duker
In the fictional West African nation Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of democracy have been quashed by a fierce military dictatorship. Chris Oriko is a member of the cabinet of the president for life, one of his oldest friends. When the president is charged with censoring the oppositionist editor of the state-run newspaper–another childhood friend–Chris’s loyalty and ideology are put to the test. The fate of Kangan hangs in the balance as tensions rise and a devious plot is set in motion to silence the firebrand critic.
Author(s): Chinua Achebe
A family struggle to make ends meet in the township and to better themselves. The book deals with the desire to give up, but also answers it’s own question with an affirmation of what things make life worthwhile.
Author(s): EM Damane
in a country where people once struggled for intellectual emancipation, millenials now sell their souls for the next expensive garment or gadget.
After 1994, life in the new South African democracy involves a different kind of war. Those who dismantled the unjust regime have left their #bornfree children to build a better one. But the #bornfreeand #blessed are not equipped. Those who fought for freedom neglected to educate their offspring about social civilisation and self worth.
Treasure is a naive dreamer tossed into this unforgiving reality, intent on supporting herself, she walks out of her dysfunctional family home in Westonaria and straight into the greedy heart of Joburg, disguised as the city of gold and black diamonds, to chase the illusion of fame and happy ending.
Living a life of luxury in a society of artificial human beings comes at a hefty price. She is wooed by a wealthy man who grooms her into power-hungry machine… but is the plesure worth the pain and endless sacrifices? What can she offer a man who has everything but a soul?
As her life crumbles around her, can Treasure alter her fate before its too late?
This inspirational novel is for all those who see one side to life, its time to open your eyes to both sides of the coin.
Author: Jackie Phamotse
Mukoma wa Ngugi’s Nairobi Heat was heralded as “the work of a genius craftsman and wordsmith” by New Africa Magazine. In Killing Sahara we once again join Ishmael Forfona – the world-weary US detective – and O – his irrepressible Kenyan counterpart – as they set up their sleuthing business together in Nairobi. It promises to be a hell of a ride.
Sweet Medicine takes place in Harare at the height of Zimbabwe’s economic woes in 2008. Tsitsi, a young woman, raised by her strict, devout Catholic mother, believes that hard work, prayer and an education will ensure a prosperous and happy future. She does well at her mission boarding school, and goes on to obtain a scholarship to attend university, but the change in the economic situation in Zimbabwe destroys the old system where hard work and a degree guaranteed a good life.
Out of university, Tsitsi finds herself in a position much lower than she had set her sights on, working as a clerk in the office of the local politician, Zvobgo. With a salary that barely provides her a means to survive, she finds herself increasingly compromising her Christian values to negotiate ways to get ahead.
Sweet Medicine is a thorough and evocative attempt at grappling with a variety of important issues in the postcolonial context: tradition and modernity; feminism and patriarchy; spiritual and political freedoms and responsibilities; poverty and desperation; and wealth and abundance.
Author(s): Panashe Chigumadzi
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Childhood friends, Liwa Nile and Noel Glass grow up in Port Alfred bound by hope and pure love for each other. But their deep dark desires bring in sinister trails of lust, murder and unclassified sexual escapades to the heart of Melrose Arch.
When Liwa loses her beloved father, hear dear friend Noel comes to the rescue. As they grow their architecture business, it emerges that Noel is no ordinary painter. Her love for darkness quickly turns Liwa’s wet bed into a nightmare.
With every break of dawn, a soul falls. More bodies are soon disappearing and their business is thriving.
Tyson Manson seeks sexual pleasure. So when a love affair boils over, he discovers more than expected. As he digs deeper into their past, more worms fill in the missing pieces. Will his findings destroy the bondages of a long-standing friendship?
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