A Sport of Nature
10 best books like A Sport of Nature (Nadine Gordimer): Tim, Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea, A Varanda do Frangipani, Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country, Arabian Nights and Days, The Volcano Lover: A Romance, Malinche, Justine, Martha Quest, A Casa Quieta
| Author | Colleen McCullough |
| ISBN | 2268032639 |
Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence . . . until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child; a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world - he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's...
| Author | Claudio Magris |
| ISBN | 1860468233 |
A triumphant celebration of a river that has forever been at the center of the great movements of history.
In this fascinating journey through the history and culture of the Danube, Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopedic and curiosity limitless, invites the reader to accompany...
| Author | Mia Couto |
| ISBN | 8535909842 |
O romance é narrado pelo carpinteiro Ermelindo Mucanga, que morreu às vésperas da Independência, quando trabalhava nas obras de restauro da Fortaleza de S. Nicolau, onde funciona um asilo para velhos. Ele é um "xipoco", um fantasma que vive numa cova sob a árvore de frangipani na varanda da fortaleza...
| Author | Gillian Slovo |
| ISBN | 0349108560 |
A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who...
| Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
| ISBN | 0385469012 |
I decided a month or so ago to read some books by Arab authors. I was hoping to find the longing and the loneliness, the need for love and for useful work that we all share as human beings. I hoped that I would find in Arab authors kindred souls to help me bridge the sense of separation that I felt with my Muslim...
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes...
This is an extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0140153195 |
The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed and purblind characters in this mesmerizing first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, the pursuit...
Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every...
| Author | Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho |
"Quero acreditar que já não estarias em casa por alturas em que cheguei mas não sei dizer. A verdade é que não te procurei. Mais uma vez. Penso que fiz as coisas do costume, penso hoje quando penso nisso que fiz as coisas do costume, terei deixado o sobretudo ao acaso, abri o frigorífico fechei abri...
| Author | Jorge Amado |
| ISBN | 9721037613 |
Escrito em 1936, quando o autor tinha apenas 24 anos, Mar morto conta as histórias da beira do cais da Bahia, como diz Jorge Amado na frase que abre o livro. E a frase é uma verdadeira carta de intenções. Nenhum outro livro sintetizou tão bem o mundo pulsante do cais de Salvador, com a rica mitologia...
Pepetela nasceu em Benguela, Angola, em 1941. Licenciado em Sociologia em Argel, escritor, guerrilheiro em Angola, político e representante do MPLA, foi professor na Universidade de Angola e membro da Comissão Directiva da União dos Escritores Angolanos. A atribuição do Prémio Camões,...
The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories
| Author | Mohammed Naseehu Ali |
| ISBN | 0060887508 |
A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa, the stories -- which are reminiscent of the works of Ben Okri and Amos Tutuola...
| Author | Sándor Márai |
| ISBN | 8478885676 |
Instalada en la casa que heredó de su padre y con la sola compañía de una pariente anciana, Eszter es una mujer soltera que vive con la placidez y tranquilidad de quien ha logrado adaptarse a lo que la vida le ha deparado. Hasta que un día, inesperadamente, recibe un telegrama de Lajos, viejo amigo de...
| Author | Miguel Sousa Tavares |
Para além dos textos de ficção inéditos, este livro de Miguel Sousa Tavares reúne textos que ao longo dos anos foram publicados na revista Máxima e noutros lugares.
As "Short Stories" que pela primeira vez vão ser vistas por outros olhos: A Passagem, A Fidelidade, O Espião que ficou no frio,...
| Author | Wole Soyinka |
| ISBN | 0435901710 |
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| Author | Zoë Wicomb |
| ISBN | 1595580476 |
Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zoë Wicomb’s celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. As...
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. The pair separated following a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and Alfonso, Rigoberto's son. To compensate for her absence, Rigoberto fills his notebooks...
| Author | André Brink |
| ISBN | 0749399856 |
Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush.
Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life....
| Author | Sol T. Plaatje |
| ISBN | 0143185403 |
Mhudi, the first full-length novel in English by a black South African, was written in the late 1910s. A romantic epic set in the first half of the nineteenth century, the main action is unleashed by King Mzilikazi's extermination campaign against the Barolong in 1832 at Kunana (nowadays Setlagole),...
| Author | Wolfgang Hohlbein |
| ISBN | 3800050730 |
Anders, Schüler eines Eliteinternats, freut sich auf seinen Traumurlaub. Doch das Flugzeug, das ihn und seinen Bodyguard Jannik an die Ägäis bringen soll, wird überfallen. Die Entführer zwingen den Piloten auf ein unbekanntes Gebirge Kurs zu nehmen. Dabei gerät die Cessna in ein Unwetter...
| Author | Jean-Paul Dubois |
| ISBN | 2020826011 |
Jean-Paul Dubois offre un roman d'une ampleur réjouissante. Cinquante ans de la vie d'un homme au cœur d'une société française qui commence avec Charles de Gaulle et s'achève avec Jacques Chirac. Tout le roman est un mélange réussi entre l'anecdote et l'histoire, entre Mai 68 et les dîners...
