The Granta book of the African short story / Edited and with and introduction by Helon Habila. - London : Granta Books, 2012. - xv, 378 pages ; 20 cm.

The arrangers of marriage / Faeries of the Nile / Stickfighting days / Dancing to the jazz goblin and his rhythm / Promenade / An Ex-mas feast / Ships in high transit / The moustached man / A good soldier / Préférence nationale / Homecoming / Street of the house of wonders / Bumsters / Passion / The fugitive / Haywards Heath / Missing out / Why don't you carve other animals / The centre of the world / Propaganda by monuments / Mme Zitta Mendès, a last image / An unexpected death / The homecoming / Oxford, black Oxford / You can't get lost in Cape Town / Cages / The last bordello / The eyes of the statue / Slipper satin / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Mansoura Ez-Eldin -- Olufemi Terry -- Brian Chikwava -- Henrietta Rose-Innes -- Uwem Akpan -- Binyavanga Wainaina -- Patrice Nganang -- Maaza Mengiste -- Fatou Diome -- Laila Lalami -- Rachida el-Charni -- E. C. Osondu -- Doreen Baingana -- Alain Mabanckou -- Aminatta Forna -- Leila Aboulela -- Yvonne Vera -- George Makana Clark -- Ivan Vladislavić -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa -- Milly Jafta -- Dambudzo Marechera -- Zoë Wicomb -- Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Manuel Rui -- Camara Laye -- Alex La Guma.

29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary novelists, Helon Habila.

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015804908 Uk


Literatura africana
Literatura afro-inglesa


Africa--21st century.--Fiction
Africa--Social life and customs--21st century.--Fiction

PR 9348 / G763 2012

823.010896