The Heart of Redness

6 best books like The Heart of Redness (Zakes Mda): Everything Good Will Come, Efuru, A Small Place, The Wild Duck, Super-Cannes, The Red Queen

Everything Good Will Come
AuthorSefi Atta
ISBN1844370569
Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school...
Efuru
AuthorFlora Nwapa
ISBN0435900269
Published in 1966, this apparently was the first book written by a Nigerian woman to be published (this is from Wiki so take with a pinch of salt). It is set in the same area and tradition as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The blurb with the book sums it up;
“Efuru, beautiful and respected, is loved...
A Small Place
AuthorJamaica Kincaid
ISBN0374527075
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...
The Wild Duck
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
ISBN0413775755
Vildanden = The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck an 1884 play, by the Norwegian playwright: Henrik Ibsen. Characters: Håkon Werle, a wholesale merchant; Gregers Werle, his son; Old Ekdal, the former business partner of Håkon Werle; Hjalmar Ekdal, Old Ekdal's son, a photographer; Gina...
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0312306091
Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothing, yet one day, a doctor at the clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his...
AuthorMargaret Drabble
ISBN0771029071
Two hundred years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen doesn’t want her extraordinary existence to be forgotten. Her long and privileged life behind the Korean palace walls was not all it seemed, and the Red Queen (or her ghost) is still desperate to retell...
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