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PublishedEveryman, June 2025 |
ISBN9781841596372 |
FormatHardcover, 560 pages |
Dimensions19.1cm × 12.7cm × 3.8cm |
A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to
the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.
A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.
Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present. This collection includes stories by contemporary voices like Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie along with a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Ousmane Semb ne, J. M. Coetzee, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more.
