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Purple Hibiscus –
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
R204.99
Product Details
Purple Hibiscus is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2004 and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, longlisted for the Booker Prize and was winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy ward for debut fiction.
Fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world is constrained by the high walls of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili’s father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt’s. Here she discovers love and a life beyond the confines of her father’s authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in time, reveal aterrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family.
MAGENGE WE NEED TO TALK –
MELUSI TSHABALALA
R258.99
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Only available at the end of April.
Happiness is a Four-Letter word –
Nozizwe Cynthia Jele
R278.99
The Book of Not –
Tsitsi Dangarembga
R224.99
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The Book of Not is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, published in 2006. The novel is semi-autobiographical, set in colonial Rhodesia. The story is told from the perspective of Tambudzai as she attends a convent boarding school in Rhodesia. In The Book of Not, Tambu’s story continues from when it previously left off in the prequel, Nervous Conditions (1988).
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