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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Eastern Africa

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  • Mihret Sibhat
    Paperback: 02/01/2024
     
    A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family ...
  • Afterlives: A Novel
    Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Paperback: 09/05/2023
     
    From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, ...
  • The Lioness: A Novel
    Chris Bohjalian
    Paperback: 05/02/2023
     
    A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical ...
  • Meron Hadero
    Hardcover: 06/28/2022
     
    Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African ...
  • Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Paperback: 06/15/2021
     
    International-award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a...
  • Maaza Mengiste
    Paperback: 10/01/2020
     
    Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Elle, ...
  • Namwali Serpell
    Paperback: 03/19/2020
     
    An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great ...

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