Ancestral Voices
7 best books like Ancestral Voices (Etienne van Heerden): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, An Orchestra of Minorities, Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, Play It As It Lays, Half of Man Is Woman, Loving, Triomf
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525541330 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
An Orchestra of Minorities
| Author | Chigozie Obioma |
| ISBN | 0316412392 |
A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.
A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
| Author | Multatuli |
| ISBN | 0140445161 |
Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374529949 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren...
| Author | Zhang Xianliang |
| ISBN | 0393025861 |
Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the position of intellectuals....
| Author | Henry Green |
| ISBN | 0099285096 |
One of his most admired works, Loving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe, invading one another's provinces...
| Author | Marlene van Niekerk |
| ISBN | 1585676497 |
Mol Benade, her brothers Treppie and Pop, and son Lambert live in a rotting government house, which is the only thing they have, other than decaying appliances that break as soon as they're fixed, remembrances of a happy past that never really existed, and each other-a Faulknerian bond of familial intimacy...
