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  1. Omslagsbild: Butter honey pig bread av

    Butter honey pig bread a novel

    "Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with...

  2. Omslagsbild: Em and the Big Hoom av

    Em and the Big Hoom

    First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto's devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is...

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    The empty room

    "In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a sham, a trap from which there is no...

  4. Omslagsbild: UnSettled and other stories av

    UnSettled and other stories

    "Whether drawn from the distance of history or located in contemporary Cape Town, these eight stories create a tender and luminous account of just how extraordinary the everyday life of women can be."--Back cover.

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    Efuru

    The story is set in West African Igbo rural community. The protagonist, Efuru, is a strong and beautiful woman. She is the daughter of Nwashike Ogene, a hero and leader of his tribe. She falls in love with a poor farmer called Adizua and runs away with him, upsetting her...

  6. Omslagsbild: When I hit You av

    When I hit You or, a portrait of the writer as ...

    Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a...

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    The rice mother

    Familjekrönika från Malaysia, 1930 till år 2000. Tamilflickan Lakshmi skickas som tonåring till Malaysia för att giftas bort. Maken Aya är mycket äldre och inte alls så välbärgad som Lakshmi blivit ilurad. Paret får sex barn, livet är hårt och under andra...

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    Acacia a novel

    Acacia is a strong and independent woman whose heart and heritage like rooted in Africa, while her reality in contemporary America finds itself in a very different time and place. In living her life, she must breach the distance between her current space and the ties...

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