Page turners: the most exciting new fiction from Africa, Latin America and south Asia
We asked 14 writers, editors and publishers to tell us their current favourites from around the world
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We asked 14 writers, editors and publishers to tell us their current favourites from around the world
There may be a big book and literary revival taking place in Kenya, even if some of the works being released are not of the highest standards.
Following a phenomenally successful 2021 for African writers, this year is also shaping up as another bumper harvest season. Gail Collins reviews works from seasoned pens as well as those fresh to publication
Okwiri Oduor’s “Things They Lost” joins Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “House of Rust” and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s “The Dragonfly Sea” as one of three recently published novels by Kenyan women that place Kenyan girls at the center of a magical quest.
Okwiri Oduor on her debut novel, Things They Lost