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African Stories

African Stories

Okri, Ben

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 1101908335
ISBN13: 9781101908334
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Feb 18 2025
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.60 Width: 4.80 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
A Pocket Classics hardcover collection of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri

Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, curates this one-volume overview of the best of African literature. Here is a pantheon of enormous talents from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, hailing from a wide variety of countries and cultures and including multiple winners of the Nobel Prize in literature, the Booker Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. The writers include Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Tayeb Salih, Doris Lessing, J. M. Coetzee, M. G. Vassanji, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and many more.

The short story form has a rich history on the African continent, drawing on a deep well of traditional oral tales, fables, and legends as well as a vital and ongoing engagement with the forces of history and modernity. Subjects range from the vicissitudes of daily life to sweeping social commentary, with such varied characters as a shopkeeper yearning for love in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Cages, a faith-healing priest in Bessie Head's Jacob, a freedom fighter facing apartheid in Nadine Gordimer's Amnesty, and invading aliens overcome by music in Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala's Jazz and Palm Wine. Whether they touch on the spirit world, the urban experience, colonialism, politics, humor, or love, these stories are both dazzling and moving.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

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