Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Tree

UK 2016, 336 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does - born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. When their lesbian love is discovered, Ijeoma learns ... Weiterlesen

K. G. MacGregor: Worth Every Step

USA 2009, 229 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Family and friends are shocked when Mary Kate Sasser throws herself into the adventure of a lifetime. The small-town Southerner follows her imagination on a quest to Africa, refusing the escort of her boyfriend. His marriage ultimatum echoes in her ears, but she's not going to think about that until she has climbed the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Addison Falk ... Weiterlesen

Anthony Bidulka: Sundowner Ubuntu

A Russell Quant Mystery. CAN 2007, 286 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Insomniac
A mother's pain - one million dollars - a missing son - desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic ... Weiterlesen

Neville Hoad: African Intimacies

USA 2007, 187 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. This book simultaneously responds to the public debate on the »Africanness« of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms »sexuality« and »homosexuality« outside of the Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, the author ... Weiterlesen