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Author: Okri, Ben
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 6 March 2025 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS' series.
Hardback | 560 pages
189 x 130 x 38 | 552g
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 Sembène, J. M. Coetzee, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more.
