Genre :: Africa (12 books)

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  #32

  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  (18 Reviews)

  382 Points

  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

  

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  #67

  Things Fall Apart

  by Chinua Achebe

  (12 Reviews)

  255 Points

  "Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."

  

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  #96

  Disgrace

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (7 Reviews)

  193 Points

  "For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well."

  

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  #155

  Henderson the Rain King

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated."

  

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  #165

  A Bend in the River

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (2 Reviews)

  120 Points

  "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

  

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  #215

  The Plague

  by Albert Camus

  (7 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran.Les curieux événements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produits en 194., à Oran.Le matin du 16 avril, le docteur..."

  

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  #282

  Waiting for the Barbarians

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"

  

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  #353

  The Heart of the Matter

  by Graham Greene

  (1 Review)

  61 Points

  "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the..."

  

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  #439

  Half of a Yellow Sun

  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair."

  

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  #445

  The Alexandria Quartet

  by Lawrence Durrell

  (2 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind."BALTHAZAR" - Landscape-toes: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections...."

  

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