{"id":1175,"date":"2024-11-28T03:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T03:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2024-11-28T03:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T03:01:50","slug":"read-around-the-world-2024-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Read Around the World 2024 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our Read Around the World 2024 Edition, we\u2019ve got 12 Incredible books from as far apart as Japan, Ivory Coast and Argentina. What they have got in common is they are wonderful books written by unbelievably talented authors. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Read Around the World 2024 Edition<\/h2>\n<div class=\"simpletoc wp-block-simpletoc-toc\">\n<h2><button class=\"simpletoc-collapsible\">Table of Contents<span class=\"simpletoc-icon\"><\/span><\/button><\/h2>\n<div class=\"simpletoc-content\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#read-around-the-world-2024-edition\">Read Around the World 2024 Edition<\/a>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#martyr-by-kaveh-akbar-iran\">Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Iran)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#the-djinn-waits-a-hundred-years-by-shubnum-khan-south-africa\">The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan (South Africa)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#traces-of-enayat-by-iman-mersal-egypt\">Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal (Egypt)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#stone-yard-devotional-by-charlotte-wood-australia\">Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Australia)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#woodworm-by-layla-martinez-spain\">Woodworm By Layla Martinez (Spain)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#toward-eternity-by-anton-hur-korea\">Toward Eternity by Anton Hur (Korea)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#the-physics-of-sorrow-by-georgi-gospodinov-bulgaria\">The Physics of Sorrow By Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#minas-matchbox-by-yoko-ogawa-japan\">Mina\u2019s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa (Japan)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#time-of-the-flies-by-claudia-pineiro-argentina\">Time of the Flies by Claudia Pi\u00f1eiro (Argentina)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#the-night-guest-by-hildur-knutsdottir-iceland\">The Night Guest by Hildur Kn\u00fatsd\u00f3ttir (Iceland)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#comrade-papa-by-gauz-ivory-coast\">Comrade Papa by GauZ (Ivory Coast)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/read-around-the-world-2024-edition#season-of-the-swamp-by-yuri-herrera-mexico\">Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera (Mexico)<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Iran)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NmcIaM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NmcIaM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DKaveh%2520Akbar%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DMartyr%2521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother\u2019s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father\u2019s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. <\/p>\n<p>Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past\u2014toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.<\/p>\n<p>Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"> The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan (South Africa)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NlSj5S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NlSj5S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DShubnum%2520Khan%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DThe%2520Djinn%2520Waits%2520a%2520Hundred%2520Years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic misfits, seeking solely to disappear into the mansion\u2019s dark corridors. Except for Sana. Unlike the others, she is curious and questioning and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion: To the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects\u2014and to the door at its end, locked for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the door is a bedroom frozen in time and a worn diary that whispers of a dark past: the long-forgotten story of a young woman named Meena, who died there tragically a hundred years ago. Watching Sana from the room\u2019s shadows is a besotted, grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since her mysterious death. Obsessed with Meena\u2019s story, and unaware of the creature that follows her, Sana digs into the past like fingers into a wound, dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone living and dead at Akbar Manzil. <\/p>\n<p>Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl\u2019s search for belonging.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal (Egypt)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3wriC4Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3wriC4Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DIman%2520Mersal%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DTraces%2520of%2520Enayat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic-speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature\u2019s tragic heroine.<\/p>\n<p>Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it\u2019s as if Enayat never existed at all.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet <a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/sensational-new-books-for-april-2024\">Iman Mersal<\/a> stumbles upon Enayat\u2019s long-forgotten Love and Silence in a Cairo book stall, she embarks on a journey of reflection and rediscovery that leads her ever closer to the world and work of Enayat al-Zayyat.<\/p>\n<p>In this luminous biographical detective story, Mersal retraces Enayat\u2019s life and afterlife though interviews with family members and friend, even tracking down the apartments, schools, and sanatoriums where Enayat spent her days. As Mersal maps two simultaneous psychogeographies\u2013from the glamor of golden-age Egyptian cinema to the Cairo of Mersal\u2019s own past\u2013a remarkable portrait emerges of two women striving to live on their own terms.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Australia)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dMoKEP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dMoKEP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DCharlotte%2520Wood%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DStone%2520Yard%2520Devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn\u2019t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.<\/p>\n<p>But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.<\/p>\n<p>Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Woodworm By Layla Martinez (Spain)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3xy1GtV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3xy1GtV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DLayla%2520Martinez%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DWoodworm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The house breathes.<\/p>\n<p>The house contains bodies and secrets.<\/p>\n<p>The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes.<\/p>\n<p>It was built by a small-time hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can\u2019t leave.<\/p>\n<p>They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice.<\/p>\n<p>Layla Mart\u00ednez\u2019s eerie debut novel Woodworm is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Toward Eternity by Anton Hur (Korea)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4c4J3Ne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4c4J3Ne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DAnton%2520Hur%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DToward%2520Eternity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?<\/p>\n<p>In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body\u2019s cells are entirely replaced with nanites\u2014robot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal.<\/p>\n<p>Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband. When Yonghun\u2014himself a recipient of nanotherapy\u2014mysteriously vanishes into thin air and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What happened to Yonghun, and though he\u2019s returned, is he really himself anymore?<\/p>\n<p>When Dr. Beeko, the scientist who holds the patent to the nanotherapy technology, learns of Panit, he transfers its consciousness from the machine into an android body, giving it freedom and life. As Yonghun, Panit, and other nano humans thrive\u2014and begin to replicate\u2014their development will lead them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring the nature of intelligence and the unexpected consequences of progress, the meaning of personhood and life, and what we really have to fear from technology and the future, Toward Eternity is a gorgeous, thought-provoking novel that challenges the notion of what makes us human\u2014and how love survives even the end of that humanity.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Physics of Sorrow By Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4aJDeo2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4aJDeo2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DGeorgi%2520Gospodinov%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DThe%2520Physics%2520of%2520Sorrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning\u00a0<em>Time Shelter<\/em>\u00a0comes another mind-expanding adventure in the realms of memory, empathy and the history we can\u2019t escape, as the unnamed narrator tries to live with a pathological condition that leads him to wander into other people\u2019s memories.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018In the small and the insignificant \u2013 that\u2019s where life hides, that\u2019s where it builds its nest.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of \u2018pathological empathy\u2019, which cause him to wander unbidden into other people\u2019s memories. He moves from recollection to recollection \u2013 from a Bulgarian country fair in 1925, where he meets a Minotaur, to inside the mind of a slug, as it is swallowed by his own Grandfather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Part family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on life in Communist Europe,\u00a0The Physics of Sorrow\u00a0is a dazzlingly inventive, mind-expanding novel from one of Europe\u2019s most important writers.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Mina\u2019s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa (Japan)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4ePCKj2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4ePCKj2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DYoko%2520Ogawa%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DMina%2592s%2520Matchbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.<\/p>\n<p>The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle\u2019s magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina\u2019s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Time of the Flies by Claudia Pi\u00f1eiro (Argentina)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4cqxGjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4cqxGjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DClaudia%2520Pi%25F1eiro%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DTime%2520of%2520the%2520Flies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In\u00e9s is released after fifteen years in prison for murdering Charo, the lover of her ex-husband. Her life has changed, but so has the society with the progress of feminism, the laws for equal marriage and abortion, and the use of inclusive language. Now In\u00e9s, a traditional housewife for whom motherhood was not a happy experience, understands that she must be practical and that has to adapt. Even if it costs her.<\/p>\n<p>She associates with La Manca, the only friend she made inside the prison, and they set up a double company where she carries out fumigations while her partner investigates as a private detective. Like Thelma and Louise from the suburbs, In\u00e9s and La Manca face complex situations as part of their new reality but with the desire to reinvent themselves.<\/p>\n<p>One day, Mrs. Bonar, one of In\u00e9s\u2019s clients, proposes a very disturbing exchange, a way out of the darkness of the past. The proposal can tilt the balance dangerously to the wrong side, but it can also change their lives.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Night Guest by Hildur Kn\u00fatsd\u00f3ttir (Iceland)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4d9nD2v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4d9nD2v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DHildur%2520Kn%25FAtsd%25F3ttir%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DThe%2520Night%2520Guest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00f0unn is in yet another doctor\u2019s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something\u2019s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven\u2019t revealed any cause.<\/p>\n<p>When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same \u2013 have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.<\/p>\n<p>Until one night I\u00f0unn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she\u2019s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .<\/p>\n<p>What is happening when she\u2019s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won\u2019t anyone believe her?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Comrade Papa by GauZ (Ivory Coast)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gjK6Mq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gjK6Mq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DGauZ%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DComrade%2520Papa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d\u2019Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes into a coast as yet untouched by colonisation.<\/p>\n<p>A century later, a Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam begins to research his family history. When he is sent to Cote d\u2019Ivoire to visit his grandmother, he will discover traces of an ancestor he never knew existed.<\/p>\n<p>GauZ\u2019 looks across continents and centuries to create a portrait of two very different men, tracing the paths and histories that connect them and plunging us deep into the history of colonisation in the Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera (Mexico)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AXV6i3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AXV6i3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DYuri%2520Herrera%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DSeason%2520of%2520the%2520Swamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Orleans, 1853. 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