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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments The master work by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in literature, this stunning book, which introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1990s, is "a majestic and capacious accomplishment"... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek Publisher Comments A breathless story of love and survival in war-torn Algeria-past and present The devil has entered our country, and his footprints are everywhere. Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best. Having run away... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of the Madman (CARAF Books) by Mongo Beti Publisher Comments Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, Mongo Beti's tenth novel, L'histoire du fou, continues the author's humorous yet fierce criticism of the colonial system in Africa and its legacy of governmental corruption.<P>Translated here... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane Publisher Comments In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway staged a strike. In this vivid, timeless novel, Sembene Ousmane envinces the color, passion... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Open Door (60 Edition) by Latifa Al-zayyat Publisher Comments The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments A renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories, made new by the magical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo by Germano Almeida Publisher Comments Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senor da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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So Long a Letter (African Writers Series #248) by Mariama Ba Publisher Comments It is not only the fact that this is the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction that gives distinction to this novel, but also its undoubted literary qualities, which seem to place it among the best novels that have come... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Publisher Comments A beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.... (read more) List Price $12.44 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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La Trip: A Novel in Verse by Mohammed Dib Publisher Comments Poetry. Translation. Winner of the 1994 Francophone Grand Prix, the highest literary prize awarded by the Acad'mie Fran'aise, Algerian-born poet Mohammed Dib created this bilingual work in response to a stay in Los Angeles in 1974. The story tells of an... (read more) Your price: $11.75 New - Trade Paper 
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The Rift (Emergent Literatures) by V. Y. Mudimbe Publisher Comments The Rift explores textuality, writing, solitude, and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity. V. Y. Mudimbe's writing is provocative, demanding, and... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Hardcover
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