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Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o
THE RIVER BETWEEN
Introduction by Uzodinma Iweala
The 50th-anniversary edition of a legendary work of African literature, this
moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and
culture whose world has been overturned. During the early days of white
settlement in Kenya, the Gikuyu people are faced with a choice between an
alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs. “Beautifully compact....It takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the
world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the
simplifying template of colonialism....It has an undeniable power.” —
Uzodinma Iweala, from the Introduction. “Has the rare qualities of restraint,
intelligence and sensitivity.” —The Times Literary Supplement.
Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00
Devil on the Cross
Introduction by Binyavanga Wainaina
Written in secret on toilet paper, while Ngũgĩ was in prison, this powerful fictional
critique of capitalism tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves
from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss
and later by a corrupt businessman. As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to
realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaise and that
much of the misfortune stems from the Western, capitalist influences on her country. An impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to
work in their own local dialects, Devil on the Cross has had a profound influence on
Africa and on post-colonial African literature. “One of our century’s great novels.”
—Tribune.
Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-310736-1 • $16.00
Available July 2016
See page 8 for other titles by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURED TITLES................................................... 2
POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS............................. 11
LITERATURE............................................................. 4
J.M. COETZEE.................................................. 5
NURUDDIN FARAH......................................... 6
NADINE GORDIMER....................................... 7
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O..................................... 8
RELIGION & ANTHROPOLOGY............................. 13
REFERENCE............................................................ 14
COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE....... 15
EXAMINATION AND DESK COPIES....................... 17
HISTORY.................................................................. 8
MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY........................................10
For more African Studies related titles, please see our Literature, Geography, History
and Sociology catalogs, available for download on www.penguin.com/subjectcatalogs
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FEATURED TITLES
Barbara H. Solomon and W. Reginald Rampone Jr, editors
AN AFRICAN QUILT
24 Modern African Stories
Introduction by Barbara H. Solomon
Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Includes stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head,
Doris Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others.
Signet Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-451-53203-9 • $7.95
Marcus Rediker
THE AMISTAD REBELLION
An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
A unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history,
now updated with a new epilogue about the author’s trip to Sierra Leona to
search for the slave-trading factory where the Amistad Africans were incarcerated. “Vividly drawn….This stunning book honors the achievement of the
captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”
—The Philadelphia Tribune.
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-312398-9 • $17.00
Anna Badkhen
WALKING WITH ABEL
Journeys with the Nomads
of the African Savannah
Journalist Badkhen embeds herself with the Fulani cowboys—nomadic herders in Mali’s Sahel grasslands—as
they embark on their annual migration across the savannah. “An amazing saga among the nomadic Fulani in
the African Sahel. Badkhen’s account is a wondrous tableau of survival in one of the planet’s toughest environments, threaded with history, legend, and a wealth of stories.”—Wayne White, Middle East Institute.
Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59463-248-8 • $27.95
Kofi Annan
INTERVENTIONS
A Life in War and Peace
Contribution by Nader Mousavizadeh
“The accounts related by Annan… are worth every minute spent reading
them. Nobody alive can quite match what he has heard and seen….With his
book as his legacy, perhaps [Annan] will inspire younger individuals to make
inroads against incredible cruelty around the world.”
—Christian Science Monitor.
Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-312395-8 • $18.00
Chinua Achebe
THERE WAS A COUNTRY
A Memoir
“Achebe’s history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom….Achebe has created here a new
genre of literature in which politico-historical evidence, the power of story-telling, and revelations from
the depths of the human subconscious are one. The event of a new work by Chinua Achebe is always
extraordinary; this one exceeds all expectation.”—Nadine Gordimer.
Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-312403-0 • $17.00
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LITERATURE
LITERATURE
Saul Bellow
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING
Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-310548-0 • $16.00
Edited by Allan H. Simmons and J.H. Stape
Introduction by Gail Fraser
Includes: “Youth,”“The Secret Sharer,”“The Lagoon,”
“An Outpost of Progress,”“Il Conde,” and “The Duel”.
John Buchan
Anonymous
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Joseph Conrad
THE NIGGER OF THE “NARCISSUS”
and Other Stories
FROM 1,001 NIGHTS
Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites
Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons
Introduction and Notes by Robert Irwin
The essential one-volume edition of the
acclaimed landmark translation described as
“the most ambitious and thorough translation”
by the Guardian (UK).
Edited with an Introduction by John Keegan
Includes notes, a chronology, and further reading.
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Bruce Chatwin
THE VICEROY OF OUIDAH
The story of a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails
to West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his
fortune. “Both a luminous historical document
and an exploitation of the surreal past.”—Time.
Simi Bedford
Maryse Conde
Translated by Barbara Bray
In the year 1797, the flourishing kingdom of Segu
reckons with coming changes, in the forms of
Islam from the east, and slave trade from the West.
Aphra Behn
Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-025949-0 • $17.00
OROONOKO, THE ROVER,
AND OTHER WORKS
Joseph Conrad
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Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-043988-5 • $12.00
OF DARKNESS
Classics Deluxe Edition
Introduction by Adam Hochschild
Illustrated by Mike Mignola
Noted by Timothy Hayes
Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-043338-8 • $13.00
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by Janet Todd
In this edition of the early antislavery novel,
Prince Oroonoko’s passion for Imoinda leads to
the lovers’ banishment from Africa into slavery
in Surinam. Includes modernized text and suggestions for further reading.
Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-310658-6 • $14.00
HEART OF DARKNESS
and THE CONGO DIARY
Edited by Owen Knowles,
Robert Hampson and J.H. Stape
Introduction by Owen Knowles
Notes by Owen Knowles and Robert Hampson
Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-144167-2 • $11.00
YOUTH; HEART OF DARKNESS;
THE END OF THE TETHER
Edited with an Introduction by John Lyon
Stephen Belcher
AFRICAN MYTHS OF ORIGIN
A unique anthology of retold fables from Africa with
individual prefaces to each section, which put the
stories in their geographical and social context.
Penguin Classics • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-044945-7 • $18.00
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by Vincent Carretta
“Carretta’s edition restores this important, but little
known author to his rightful place as a central figure in the Black Atlantic tradition of the eighteenth
century...Masterful.”— Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044750-7 • $16.00
SEGU
Penguin • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-023293-6 • $14.00
OROONOKO
THOUGHTS AND SENTIMENTS
ON THE EVIL OF SLAVERY
and Other Writings
Penguin • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-011290-0 • $13.00
YORUBA GIRL DANCING
Edited with an Introduction by Janet Todd
Based on the first printed edition of 1688 and
includes a chronology, bibliography and notes.
Includes “The Fair Jilt,” “Love Letters to a Gentleman,” “The Widow Ranter” and poems.
Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-144170-2 • $16.00
Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-144117-7 • $11.00
Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-119166-9 • $18.00
A semi-autobiographical first novel about a
Nigerian girl’s adjustment to life at an English
boarding school. “A wise and provocative book.”
—Publishers Weekly.
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-018513-3 • $13.00
HEART OF DARKNESS AND
THE SECRET SHARER
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Afterword by Vince Passaro
Nina Darnton
AN AFRICAN AFFAIR
A New York journalist uncovers corruption, drug
smuggling, and rampant human rights abuses
while covering the regime of Nigeria’s fictional
president, and attracts government attention in
this thriller drawn from Darnton’s own experiences
living in Africa during the mid-1970s. “A vivid portrait of a troubled country.” —The New York Times.
Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-29802-6 • $16.00
Olaudah Equiano
THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE
and Other Writings
Revised and Expanded Edition
With Notes and an Introduction
by Vincent Carretta
“Vincent Carretta singlehandedly has transformed
our understanding of the origins of the Anglo-African literary tradition.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “The
most thoroughly researched and the most copiously annotated text of Equiano’s Narrative ever
published, this is now the standard edition.”—William L. Andrews, Univ. of Kansas. Contains the
complete text in addition to all other known writings by Equiano, published and unpublished.
Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-243716-2 • $14.00
Signet Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-451-53103-2 • $4.95
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LITERATURE
J.M. COETZEE
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CHILDHOOD OF JESUS
“A Kafka-inspired parable of the quest for
meaning itself.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New
York Times Book Review. “[A book] of profound
and painful humanity, preoccupied with some
of the most essential questions about what it
means to be a parent and what happens when
noble principles are confronted with the
grubby details of everyday life.”—Patrick
Flanery, The Washington Post.
Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-312576-1 • $16.00
DIARY OF A BAD YEAR
“Coetzee has created a clever superstructure filled
with philosophical self-interrogation on questions of political, artistic and erotic moralities.”
—Los Angeles Times.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-311448-2 • $16.00
Australia-Asia Literary Award Longlist, New York
Times Notable
* Reading Group guide available at www.penguin.com
DISGRACE
Explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with vividness the plight of a country
caught in the chaotic aftermath of centuries of
racial oppression.
Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-303637-1• $15.95
Booker Prize
* Reading Group guide available at www.penguin.com
DUSKLANDS
In this pair of novellas, taking place in Vietnam
in 1870 and Africa in 1760, Coetzee charts the
nature of colonization as it seeks to absorb the
wilds into the Western dusklands.
Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-024177-8 • $13.00
ELIZABETH COSTELLO
Coetzee portrays a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. “Unflinching...the cruelest and best use to which literature
can be put.”—The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-200481-4 • $16.00
New York Times Notable
FOE
“A bold, imaginative rethinking of our desertedisland and Eden myths.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
INNER WORKINGS
Literary Essays 2000-2005
Introduction by Derek Attridge
In this collection of twenty essays, Coetzee examines the work of some of the twentieth-century’s
greatest writers—from Samuel Beckett and Günter
Grass to Gabriel García Márquez and Philip Roth.
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Penguin • 496 pp. • 978-0-14-242255-7 • $20.00
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311378-2 • $16.00
IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
“A realistic fable, at once stark, exciting, and economical.”—The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-006228-1 • $14.00
LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K
In a South Africa torn by war, Michael K takes his
ailing mother back to her rural home. On the
way she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic
world of brutal roving armies. “A major work of
crystalline intensity.”—Los Angeles Times.
Penguin • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-007448-2 • $14.00
Booker Prize
THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-023810-5 • $16.00
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
A startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. “A literary event.”—The New
York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-006110-9 • $15.00
Penguin Ink Edition
Illustrated by C. C. Askew
Penguin • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-311692-9 • $16.00
STRANGER SHORES: Literary Essays
“A magnificent collection....It is both for admirers of Coetzee’s fiction and for those who wish
to read about a number of literary greats across
the shores.”—The Boston Globe.
Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-200137-0 • $17.00
SLOW MAN
A meditation on what makes us human, on
what it means to grow older and reflect on how
we have lived our lives.
Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-303789-7 • $16.00
International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist,
New York Times Notable
* Reading Group guide available at www.penguin.com
Penguin • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-009623-1 • $15.00
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FROM A PROVINCIAL LIFE
Boyhood, Youth, Summertime
Coetzee’s brilliant trilogy of fictionalized memoirs in one volume. “It’s a mark of Mr. Coetzee’s
power as a storyteller that he makes a compelling, indeed, racing, narrative out of these hidden
wheels within wheels.”—The New York Times.
SUMMERTIME
Scenes from a Provincial Life, Part III
“Not since Disgrace has [Coetzee] written with
such urgency and feeling.”—The New Yorker.
Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311845-9 • $15.00
YOUTH: Scenes from Provincial Life II
“An indelible heartfelt portrait of the loneliness
of a young man living in the vastness of 1960s
London.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-200200-1 • $14.00
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Nominee, New York Times Notable
BOYHOOD: Scenes from Provincial Life I
“A short and unsettling, deftly realized memoir
of the celebrated South African writer’s childhood in the hinterlands.”—Kirkus Reviews.
Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-026566-8 • $14.00
The Nobel Lecture in
Literature, 2003
Penguin • 32 pp. • 978-0-14-303453-7 • $12.00
David Attwell
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M. COETZEE AND THE LIFE OF
WRITING: Face to Face with Time
See Memoir & Biography, page 10
Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee
u HERE AND NOW: Letters 2008-2011
See Memoir & Biography, page 10
J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz
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GOOD STORY
A fascinating dialogue on the human desire to
make up stories between Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz.
Viking • 208 pp. • 978-0-525-42951-7 • $27.95
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LITERATURE
Vincent Carretta
EQUIANO, THE AFRICAN
Biography of a Self-Made Man
A provocative novel that reverses the history of
the transatlantic slave trade, wondering what if
the Africans had enslaved Europeans, reexamining notions of savagery and civilization, as it
follows a young woman’s journey to freedom.
A bold literary novel set in South Africa centering
around the disappearance of a young antiapartheid activist. “[An] uncommonly thought-provoking first novel….Richly imaginative….Patrick
Flanery is an exceptionally gifted and intelligent
novelist.”—Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker.
Riverhead • 432 pp. • 978-1-59448-657-9 • $16.00
Paul Harris
THE SECRET KEEPER
Set in war-torn Sierra Leone, the story of one
man’s search for the truth in a nation where the
rules of civilized society simply don’t apply.
Plume • 336 pp. • 978-0-452-29596-4 • $15.00
Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-312253-1 • $16.00
FROM A CROOKED RIB
Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-303726-2 • $15.00
u HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
“The rewards of reading Hiding in Plain Sight lie
in Farah’s sensitive exploration of grief and his
depiction of a family’s love for one another….
Farah is particularly adept at evoking the way in
which the sight of a familiar face or place can
trigger painful memories and how comfort can
come to us from unexpected sources.”
—The New York Times Book Review.
Ian Holding
OF BEAST AND BEINGS
Europa • 224 pp. • 978-1-60945-054-0 • $15.00
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Elspeth Huxley
Kuki Gallmann
I DREAMED OF AFRICA
Filled with pain and joy, beauty and drama, Gallman’s haunting memoir “captures perfectly the
magic of Kenya” (The New York Times Book Review).
Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-028744-8 • $17.00
Damon Galgut
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SUMMER
Europa • 352 pp. • 978-1-60945-234-6 • $17.00
IN A STRANGE ROOM
Europa • 224 pp. • 978-1-60945-011-3 • $15.00
Camilla Gibb
SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY
A young British woman, orphaned and raised in
Morocco, goes to Ethiopia and then Britain,
where she confronts the riddle of who she is
and where she belongs.
Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-303872-6 • $15.00
THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA
Memories of an African Childhood
Riverhead • 352 pp. • 978-1-59463-336-2 • $27.95
Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-1-59463-410-9 • $17.00
Paperback available September 2015
Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-118378-7• $17.00
Sheila Kohler
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BAY OF FOXES
In 1978, an Ethiopian refugee roams the streets of
Paris, where he meets a famous French author. He
accompanies her to her Sardinian villa, where he
finds love and temptation—and perfects the art
of deception. “Spare and sensuous—understated
and fraught with tension.”—Joyce Carol Oates.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-312101-5 • $15.00
LINKS
“An elegant statement of what actually bonds
people together: common experience, love and
commitment.”—Washington Post Book World.
Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303484-1 • $16.00
Hurst/Wright Legacy Award
KNOTS
Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-311298-3 • $17.00
BLOOD IN THE SUN TRILOGY
“Interesting and important because of the connected fundamental thematic tropes it uses as
the engaging principle of each of its novels....A
breakthrough in new work from Africa.”—Imtiaz
Habib, Old Dominion University.
Amara Lakhous
CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS OVER AN
ELEVATOR IN PIAZZA VITTORIO
Translated by Ann Goldstein
Europa • 144 pp. • 978-1-933372-61-7 • $14.95
DISPUTE OVER A VERY
ITALIAN PIGLET
Europa • 160 pp. • 978-1-60945-188-2 • $15.00
DIVORCE ISLAMIC STYLE
Europa • 184 pp. • 978-1-60945-066-3 • $15.00
CROSSBONES
“Politically courageous...Crossbones provides a
sophisticated introduction to present-day
Somalia, and to the circle of poverty and violence that continues to blight the country.”—
The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-043736-8 • $11.00
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SHE
Edited with an Introduction by Patrick Brantlinger
This edition of one of the most famous works of
popular literature includes a critical introduction, suggestions for further reading, and notes.
Riverhead • 288 pp. • 978-1-59448-434-6 • $15.00
Orange Prize Finalist
Patrick Flanery
Winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award,
the Fonlon-Nicholas Award,
and the Neustadt International
Prize for Literature.
Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-143952-5 • $13.00
Bernardine Evaristo
BLONDE ROOTS
KING SOLOMON’S MINES
Prefaces by Giles Foden
Edited with an Introduction and
Notes by Robert Hampson
See History, page 8
NURUDDIN
FARAH
H. Rider Haggard
MAPS
Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-029643-3 • $16.00
GIFTS
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-029642-6 • $16.00
SECRETS
Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-028045-6 • $16.00
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LITERATURE
NADINE
GORDIMER
BEETHOVEN WAS
ONE-SIXTEENTH BLACK
This new collection of stories probes how people are never free from their past nor spared
from loss.
Leila Marouane
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF AN
ISLAMIST IN PARIS
Europa • 224 pp. • 978-1-933372-85-3 • $15.00
Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-31062-9 • $15.00
Jennifer McVeigh
THE FEVER TREE
In 1880, a young woman left destitute in the
wake of her father’s sudden death must leave
her life of privilege in London and emigrate to
South Africa, where she must choose between
passion and integrity. “McVeigh has imagined a
rich and dramatic story.”—The Washington Post.
BURGER’S DAUGHTER
Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-005593-1 • $16.00
Dinaw Mengestu
HOW TO READ THE AIR
After his father’s death, a man leaves New York
for Ethiopia to retrace his roots and craft his
own story. “Deeply thought out, deliberate in
its craftsmanship and…beautifully written.”—
The New York Times.
“More profound, more searching, more accomplished than what she was writing earlier in her
long and distinguished career.”—Los Angeles Times.
Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-303792-7 • $14.00
JULY’S PEOPLE
Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-539-8 • $15.00
Stories
This selection of short stories reveals Gordimer’s
acute understanding of human nature and
paints a fascinatingly original portrait of South
Africa. “Superb....A series of masterly drawn
glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa’s great modern literary geniuses.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR.
Penguin • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-311983-8 • $18.00
LOOT AND OTHER STORIES
Ten new stories from the Nobel Prize winner. “A
diamond-sharp book”—San Francisco Chronicle.
“Gordimer’s meticulous charting of human
weakness and self-deception is as exact as ever...
Deeply exhilarating.”—Boston Globe.
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-200468-5 • $14.00
BOOK OF PHOENIX
In this unique, riotous blend of science fiction and
fantasy set in the future, a powerful, superhuman
woman must escape a home she realizes is actually a prison and begins a journey that will take
her from the United States to Africa and back and
change the entire course of humanity’s future.
DAW • 240 pp. • 978-0-7564-1019-3 • $24.95
Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-004716-5 • $16.00
Best of the Booker Prize shortlist
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Nnedi Okorafor
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Berkley • 448 pp. • 978-0-425-26491-1 • $16.00
THE CONSERVATIONIST
Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-006140-6 • $15.00
Contains the core of Mphahlele’s landmark collection of stories, together with more recent stories written by him after his return to South Africa.
Translated by Alison Anderson
Penguin • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-311423-9 • $14.00
GET A LIFE
Ezekiel Mphahlele
IN CORNER B
THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS
THAT HEAVEN BEARS
“I was profoundly moved by this tale of an Ethiopian immigrant’s search for acceptance, peace,
and identity.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The
Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Riverhead • 240 pp. • 978-1-59448-285-4 • $16.00
New York Times Notable, Guardian First Book Award,
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize
Shortlist
Eleanor Morse
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DOG FELL FROM THE SKY
In this rich and intimate portrait of Botswana,
Isaac, a medical student who has escaped apartheid South Africa, goes to work as a gardener for
Alice, a young American woman who has followed her husband to Africa. When Isaac goes
missing, Alice searches for him, and what she
finds changes her life forever. “Catches the soul of
compassion. It is one of the wisest, most comprehensive, most compelling books I’ve ever read….
Here’s the real thing, a book of genuine intellect
and inspiration, superbly written, fascinating.”
—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife.
WHO FEARS DEATH
A powerful story of genocide set in post-apocalyptic Africa and the woman who reshapes her
world. “Both wondrously magical and terribly
realistic.” —The Washington Post.
DAW • 432 pp. • 978-0-7564-0728-5 • $7.99
Boualem Sansal
THE GERMAN MUJAHID
Translated by Frank Wynne
Europa • 240 pp. • 978-1-933372-92-1 • $15.00
Olive Schreiner
THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM
Introduction by Dan Jacobson
Published in 1883 under a pseudonym, South
African author Schreiner’s first novel is generally considered one of the first feminist novels
and also as the first great South African novel.
Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-043184-1 • $14.00
See also Words in Season, page 13
Taiye Selasi
u GHANA
MUST GO
“Irresistible from the first line...this bright, rhapsodic debut stood out in the thriving field of fiction about the African diaspora.”—The Wall
Street Journal.
Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-312497-9 • $16.00
Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-312443-6 • $16.00
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LITERATURE / HISTORY
HISTORY
Rob Spillman, editor
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NGUGI WA
THIONG’O
A GRAIN OF WHEAT
Introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and
on the cusp of Kenya’s independence from Britain, the novel follows a group of villagers
whose lives have been transformed by the
1952–1960 Emergency.
The Penguin Anthology of
Contemporary African Writing
Whether about life in the new urban melting
pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in
the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the
oral storytelling tradition, these 30 stories represent a striking cross section of an extraordinary
new African literature. Includes stories from
northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zuluspeaking writers, and features J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga
Wainaina, and Chinua Achebe.
Introduction by Moses Isegawa
“Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned.”—The
New Yorker. When first published in 1977, this
deceptively simple tale of an investigation of a
triple murder in Kenya earned its author incarceration without charges by the Kenyan government. Now, it is considered “the definitive
African book of the twentieth century.”—
Moses Isegawa. Footnotes.
Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute
Translated and Annotated by Gordon Innes
Edited with an Introduction and Additional
Notes by Lucy Durán and Graham Furniss
These stories remain central to the culture of
the Mande-speaking peoples. This book brings
together translations of live performances by
two leading Gambian jalis, or bards. 1 map.
RIVER BETWEEN
The 50th-anniversary edition of a legendary
work of African literature, this moving and eyeopening novel lucidly captures the drama of a
people and culture whose world has been
overturned.
Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00
See Featured Titles, page 2
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NOT, CHILD
Introduction by Ben Okri
In the Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel, two
brothers, a carpenter and a scholar, must decide
where their loyalties lie as the Mau Mau wages
war against the white government.
Available July 2016
Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
OCCIDENTALISM
The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
“A useful primer on the habits of mind that
drive our most implacable foes....Accurate and
fair-minded.” —The New York Times. “Succinct,
elegant, and challenging...help[s] show that the
divide between the West and its enemies is an
old one.”—The Economist.
Various
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF
MODERN AFRICAN POETRY
5th Edition
Edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier
Introduction by Gerald Moore
Revised and expanded, this comprehensive
anthology features the work of ninety-nine
poets from twenty-seven countries.
Penguin Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-042472-0 • $18.00
Andre Carl van der Merwe
MOFFIE
Europa • 336 pp. • 978-1-60945-050-2 • $15.00
Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310669-2 • $15.00
u DEVIL ON THE CROSS
See Featured Titles, page 2
Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-312595-2 • $20.00
Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-044736-1 • $14.00
André Brink and J. M. Coetzee, editors
A LAND APART
A Contemporary South African Reader
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-010004-4 • $16.00
FARAWAY PLACES
Global Insurrection and the Making of the
Modern World, 1945-1965
Drawing from new archival research, prize-winning historian Burleigh gives new meaning to
the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the many, largely forgotten, “hot” wars
fought around the world. “A well-researched and
readable account of two tumultuous decades….
Burleigh has synthesized a wide range of material to create a valuable introduction to the political and military events of the early Cold War.”—
The New York Times Book Review.
SUNJATA
Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-303917-4 • $15.00
u THE
Michael Burleigh
u SMALL WARS,
Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-311473-4 • $18.00
Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-310676-0 • $16.00
PETALS OF BLOOD
GODS AND SOLDIERS
Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-303487-2 • $15.00
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
James T. Campbell
MIDDLE PASSAGES: African American
Journeys to Africa 1787-2005
Preface by David Levering Lewis
A unique perspective on African Americans’
relationship with their ancestral homeland.
Includes the experiences of figures like Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, Richard Wright,
Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou.
Penguin • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-311198-6 • $17.00
Vincent Carretta
EQUIANO, THE AFRICAN
Biography of a Self-Made Man
A controversial look at the most renowned person of African descent in the eighteenth century. “An intriguing piece of detective work”
—The Washington Post.
Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-303842-9 • $18.00
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HISTORY
John Carlin
PLAYING THE ENEMY
Nelson Mandela and the
Game That Made a Nation
Shiva Naipaul
NORTH OF SOUTH: An African Journey
Naipaul travelled to Africa in the 1970s, aiming
to discover what “liberation,” “revolution” and
“socialism” meant to ordinary people.
See Politics & Current Events, page 11
Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-018826-4 • $17.00
Molly Caldwell Crosby
THE AMERICAN PLAGUE
Depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in
the U.S. and in Africa, where even today it
strikes thousands every year. “Engrossing…A
first-rate medical detective drama.”—The New
York Times Book Review.
Berkley • 384 pp. • 978-0-425-21775-7 • $16.00
Graham Greene
JOURNEY WITHOUT MAPS
Introduction by Paul Theroux
The spellbinding record of Greene’s 1935 journey to Liberia.
Padraig O’Malley
SHADES OF DIFFERENCE: Mac Maharaj
and the Struggle for South Africa
Foreword by Nelson Mandela
Based on extensive interviews with Maharaj and
hitherto unavailable documents, O’Malley
reveals the inside story of South Africa’s antiapartheid movement. “[O’Malley] is knowledgeable and sure-footed as he recounts this story...
making a complex narrative on the whole quite
clear.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “A striking success.”—The New York Times Book Review.
Marcus Rediker
AFRICANS AND THEIR HISTORY
Second Revised Edition
“A major summary of the history of Africa.”
—Elliott P. Skinner, Columbia Univ. A concise overview of the diverse peoples and societies of Africa.
Plume • 320 pp. • 978-0-452-01181-6 • $18.00
Aidan Hartley
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Story of Life,
Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
“A wrenching account of African horrors [and] a
loving, often evocative account of East Africa
where the author grew up.”—The New York
Times. A frontline reporter who covered the
atrocities of 1990s Africa undertakes a journey
to unlock the mysteries of his own family’s 150year colonial legacy on the continent.
Riverhead • 496 pp. • 978-1-59448-011-9 • $16.00
Mason Lowance, editor
JUSTINIAN’S FLEA
The First Great Plague and
the End of the Roman Empire
Weaves together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology to tell the story of the plague’s effect on
Justinian’s empire, a territory that stretched
from Italy to North Africa.
Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-311381-2 • $17.00
John Steinbeck
ONCE THERE WAS A WAR
Edited by Mark Bowden
On assignment for The New York Herald Tribune,
writing from Italy and North Africa, and from
England during the London blitz, Steinbeck
focuses on the human-scale effect of the war.
Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-310479-7 • $15.00
Penguin • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-023224-0 • $18.00
Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-303972-3 • $16.00
Joseph E. Harris, Ph.D.
William Rosen
THE SLAVE SHIP: A Human History
Focusing on the 18th-century American and
British slave trade, Rediker explores how the
ships, their crews, and their human cargo connected and transformed societies on both sides
of the horrendous voyage. He draws on thirty
years of research in maritime archives, court
records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, to reconstruct the “floating dungeons” at the forefront of
the birth of African American culture. “The best
of histories, deeply researched, brilliantly formulated, and morally informed.”—Ira Berlin, University of Maryland. “I was hardly prepared for the
profound emotional impact of The Slave Ship.
Reading it established a transformative and
never to be severed bond with my African ancestors.”—Alice Walker. 16 pp. b/w photos, 8 maps.
Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311425-3 • $18.00
Winner of the George Washington Book Prize,
the AHA James A. Rawley Prize, and the OAH Merle Curti Award
Also available: The Amistad Rebellion, page 3
AGAINST SLAVERY
An Abolitionist Reader
Assembles more than forty speeches, lectures,
and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade.
Features William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-043758-4 • $18.00
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u TINDERBOX
How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic
and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
“A remarkable volume. With rare clarity, Tinderbox lays bare the origins of the AIDS virus, and
then reveals the often hapless and delinquent
responses of the international community. It’s a
fascinating read: relentlessly honest, sometimes scathing, always principled.”—Stephen
Lewis, Founder/Director of AIDS-Free World,
Former UN Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa.
Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-312300-2 • $18.00
Joyce A. Tyldesley
DAUGHTERS OF ISIS
Women of Ancient Egypt
A picture of daily life from a female perspective.
Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-017596-7 • $17.00
Nicholas Wade
BEFORE THE DAWN
Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never
before—a journey made possible only recently
by genetic science. “Impeccable, fearless,
responsible and absorbing....Bound to be the
gold standard in the field for a very long
time.”—Lionel Tiger, Rutgers University.
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303832-0 • $17.00
Also available: A Troublesome Inheritance, 978-0-14-312716-1
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HISTORY / MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
Jim Wooten
WE ARE ALL THE SAME
A Story of a Boy’s Courage
and a Mother’s Love
“A brilliant, stunning, beautifully written piece
of reporting.”—Jim Lehrer. “An extraordinarily
moving account of a courageous South African
boy’s battle with AIDS that is also a scathing
indictment of South African leaders who have
failed to confront the AIDS epidemic in their
country.”—Publishers Weekly.
Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee
HERE AND NOW: Letters 2008-2011
A three-year epistolary dialogue between novelists Auster and Coetzee that touches on
nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics,
from the financial crisis to art, death, eroticism,
marriage, friendship, and love. “[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men…A pleasure to be in their company.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post.
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-303599-2 • $16.00
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Semi-finalist
Emma Brockes
Tom Zoellner
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-312491-7 • $16.00
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URANIUM
War, Energy and the Rock
That Shaped the World
Takes readers around the globe in this intriguing look at the mineral that can sustain life or
destroy it. “Journeying to such far-flung sites as
Congo’s Shinkolobwe uranium mine and a
smuggling route along the Russian-Georgian
border, Tom Zoellner examines how uranium
has helped shape our recent history and could
determine our future.”—Washington Post.
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-312536-5 • $16.00
Rosamond Halsey Carr
with Ann Howard Halsey
Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-311672-1 • $17.00
MEMOIR &
BIOGRAPHY
LEFT ME THE GUN
My Mother’s Life Before Me
A woman travels South Africa in search of the
family her mother left behind and learns shocking truths about her history. “Full of intellect
and feeling and dartlike expression. It’s one of
those memoirs that remind you why you liked
memoirs in the first place.”—Dwight Garner,
The New York Times.
LAND OF A THOUSAND HILLS
My Life in Rwanda
Carr’s memoir of her life in Rwanda—a love
affair with a country and a people that has
spanned half a century.
Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-28202-5 • $18.00
Alexandra Fuller
COCKTAIL HOUR UNDER THE TREE
OF FORGETFULNESS
David Attwell
u J.
M. COETZEE AND
THE LIFE OF WRITING
Face to Face with Time
Based on Coetzee’s manuscripts, notebooks,
and research papers, a moving, insightful biography of the Nobel Laureate and study of his
exceptional novels that will change the way his
work is read.
Viking • 272 pp. • 978-0-525-42961-6 • $27.95
Available October 2015
An intimate exploration of Fuller’s parents and of
the price of being possessed by Africa’s uncompromising, fertile, death-dealing land. “Electrifying….Writing in shimmering, musical prose…Ms.
Fuller manages the difficult feat of writing about
her mother and father with love and understanding, while at the same time conveying the terrible
human costs of the colonialism they supported.”
— Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.
Alexandra Fuller
u LEAVING
BEFORE THE RAINS COME
Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, Fuller
finally confronts the tough questions about her
past, about the American man she married, and
about the family she left behind in Africa. “Fuller
writes with ferocity and precision, and she
turns the story of her marriage and its disintegration into a resonant parable about a couple’s mismatched views of the world.”—Michiko
Kakutani, The New York Times.
Penguin Press • 272 pp. • 978-1-59420-586-6 • $26.95
Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-312842-7 • $17.00
Paperback available January 2016
SCRIBBLING THE CAT
Travels with an African Soldier
“The author of Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight
takes a demon-haunted tour of Zimbabwe and
Mozambique in the company of an ex-solider who
fought with the Rhodesian Light Infantry....
A worried, restless, and haunted piece of work, tattooed and scarred from beginning to end.”—Kirkus
Reviews (starred review). “Fuller is a truly gifted and
insightful writer.”—Booklist (starred review). Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-303501-5 • $16.00
Lettre Ulysses Award
Zelda la Grange
u GOOD
MORNING, MR. MANDELA
An important tribute to Nelson Mandela by one
of his most devoted associates for two decades.
“This story proves the power of making politics
personal and is an important reminder of the
lessons Madiba taught us all.”—Bill Clinton.
Plume • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-751627-5 • $18.00
Doc Hendley
u WINE TO WATER
How One Man Saved Himself While Trying
to Save the World
The inspiring story of a 25-year-old small-town
bartender who became a humanitarian, traveling to Asia, Africa, and Haiti, braving tribal warfare and other dangers, to bring clean drinking
water to those who desperately needed it.
Avery • 304 pp. • 978-1-58333-507-9 • $17.00
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-312134-3 • $16.00
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HISTORY / POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri and Susan
Urbanek Linville
Carol Wall
A SCHOOL FOR MY VILLAGE
A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka
The unforgettable story of a man who overcame tremendous odds as he followed his
dream to build a school for AIDS orphans in his
village in Uganda. “An inspiring account of turning tragedy into hope for others.”—President
Jimmy Carter. “Provides a model of how problems can be solved in a Third World situation
with few resources but lots of imagination,
optimism, the generation of community support and the resourcefulness of friends.”—Merrick Posnansky, UCLA; former professor at Makerere University, Uganda.
Robyn Scott
TWENTY CHICKENS FOR A SADDLE
DOWN SECOND AVENUE
Foreword by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o
A landmark book that was originally banned in
South Africa, this seminal memoir continues to
inspire activists today. Vivid, graceful, and
unapologetic, it details a daily life of severe
poverty and brutal police surveillance under
the subjugation of an apartheid regime.
Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-310679-1 • $16.00
Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner
AN ORDINARY MAN: An Autobiography
The remarkable story of the man who inspired
the film Hotel Rwanda. “Extraordinary—horrific
and tragic, but also inspiring, because Rusesabagina refuses to give up his belief in the basic
decency of humanity.”—The Times, London.
Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-303860-3 • $16.00
Also available: Blueprint for Action 978-0-425-21174-8, Great
Powers 978-0-399-15537-5
Mark Bowden
BLACK HAWK DOWN
A Story of Modern War
“Ranks among the best books ever written
about infantry combat.”—Bob Shacochis. A brilliant account of the sustained firefight involving
American troops on October 3, 1993 in the
heart of Mogadishu, Somalia.
Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-311509-0 • $16.00
Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-028850-6 • $13.95
National Book Award Finalist
Vanessa Woods
BONOBO HANDSHAKE: A Memoir of
Love and Adventure in the Congo
A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn
Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo
apes.
Gotham • 304 pp. • 978-1-59240-634-0 • $16.00
Es’kia Mphahlele
Berkley • 448 pp. • 978-0-452-20239-5 • $16.00
The Story of an African Childhood
In this memoir of an idyllic childhood and a
family’s enthusiasm for the world around them,
the essence of Africa infuses every page.
GOLDEN ROAD
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311297-6 • $14.00
San Francisco Chronicle Notable
War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
“Barnett offers one of the most provocative and
comprehensive approaches to understanding
national security in the 21st century.”—Sherri
Goodman, Senior Fellow, the CNA Corporation,
and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.
Berkley • 304 pp. • 978-0-425-27383-8 • $16.00
Caille Millner
Notes on My Gentrification
Millner recounts her outcast beginnings in California and journey through a succession of
imagined promised lands—Harvard, London,
post-apartheid South Africa, New York City—in
search of a place where she can define herself.
Thomas P. M. Barnett
THE PENTAGON’S NEW MAP
How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a
Green Thumb and an Open Heart
Wall, a white woman living in Middle America,
strikes up a friendship with a man from Kenya
who tends her neighbor’s yard. “In this heartbreaking yet heartwarming paean to the joys of
friendship and gardening, Wall crafts an elegiac
tribute to an extraordinary man.”—Booklist.
Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311912-8 • $16.00
MISTER OWITA’S GUIDE TO
GARDENING
POLITICS &
CURRENT EVENTS
Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel,
editors
u DIARIES
OF AN UNFINISHED
REVOLUTION
Voices from Tunis to Damascus
These profoundly moving firsthand accounts
from participants in the Arab Spring, ranging
from student activists to seasoned journalists,
highlight the power of writing in a time of revolution. “There is an undeniable power to the
presence of time and movement in these
accounts.”—The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-312515-0 • $17.00
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John Carlin
PLAYING THE ENEMY
Nelson Mandela and the
Game That Made a Nation
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby
tournament—the story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South
Africa together. “This wonderful book describes
Mandela’s methodical, improbable and brilliant
campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and
fearful whites around a sporting event, a game
of rugby.”—The New York Times Book Review. “ If
you have any doubts about the political genius
of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin’s engrossing book.”—USA Today.
Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311572-4 • $17.00
William Easterly
THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN
Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest
Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
“Easterly’s call for a more modest, results-oriented approach to aid is dead-on.”—Los Angeles Times. “Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of
Western intervention in the Third World.”
—BusinessWeek.
Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-303882-5 • $18.00
Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Finalist
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POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS
Ruth First
Lindsey Hilsum
117 Days
An Account of Confinement and
Interrogation Under the South African
90-Day Detention Law
Introduction by Angela Y. Davis
An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the
apartheid system, 117 Days presents the chronicle of journalist First’s isolation and abuse at
the hands of South African interrogators. Upon
her arrest in 1963, she was detained in solitary
confinement, under South Africa’s ninety-day
detention law. Thus began a war of nerves
between First and her Special Branch captors.
“[Ruth First’s] life, and her death, remains a beacon to all who love liberty.”—Nelson Mandela.
Libya in the Time of Revolution
“An epic account of the revolution that swept
Muammar Gaddafi from power. Written by one of
the finest war correspondents of our time, this is a
must-read first draft of history.”—Jon Lee Anderson. “A passionate but measured account of why
the battle for Libya happened, how it played out
and what may be yet to come.”—Financial Times.
Fergal Keane
SEASON OF BLOOD
A Rwandan Journey
“Captivating...lucid...and very disturbing. There
are passages rich and ironic enough to recall
the African travel writing of Graham Greene.”—
Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Michelle Goldberg
THE MEANS OF REPRODUCTION
Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
Goldberg exposes the global war on women’s
reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global
development. “What this book demonstrates
convincingly is that there can be no economic
progress in any country that denies women
basic human rights.”—Susan Jacoby, author of
The Age of American Unreason.
Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311688-2 • $17.00
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
MULTITUDE
War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
“A rare and exciting work of synthesis.”—Booklist (starred review). “[The authors] attempt to
outline a comprehensive theory bringing the
state, democracy and the power of capital
together to redefine the terms under which
they operate.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-303559-6 • $18.00
Padraig O’Malley
SHADES OF DIFFERENCE: Mac Maharaj
and the Struggle for South Africa
Foreword by Nelson Mandela
The inside story of South Africa’s anti-apartheid
movement, told through the experiences of its
unsung hero. “Exactly what O’Malley set out to
achieve: ‘a portrait of Mac and of South Africa.’ It is a
striking success.”—The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-023224-0 • $18.00
Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-312360-6 • $17.00
Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-310574-9 • $14.00
SANDSTORM
Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-024760-2 • $15.00
Orwell Prize
Mark Malloch-Brown
THE UNFINISHED GLOBAL
REVOLUTION
The Road to International Cooperation
“Rich in both analysis and recommendations,
Mark Malloch-Brown deploys his enormous talent and shrewd understanding of the forces that
are shaping our world to argue for stronger, more
inclusive global institutions. Drawing from a
wealth of personal experience on the frontlines
of world affairs, Mark’s book is authentic, compelling and immensely enjoyable. His message
should resonate in national and international discourse for years to come.”—Kofi Annan.
Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-312083-4 • $16.00
Mark Mazzetti
u THE WAY
OF THE KNIFE
The CIA, a Secret Army, and a
War at the Ends of the Earth
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting
account of the CIA’s transformation after 9/11
and the new American way of war. “Superb….
The best account yet.”—The New York Times.
“[A] deeply reported and crisply written
account….Recounts the important shifts in the
architecture of the U.S. military and intelligence
communities.”—The Washington Post.
John Perkins
CONFESSIONS OF AN
ECONOMIC HIT MAN
“Astonishing.”—Boston Herald. “Here are the
real-life details—nasty, manipulative, plain
evil—of international corporate skullduggery
spun into a tale rivaling the darkest espionage
thriller.”—Greg Palast, author of The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy.
Plume • 336 pp. • 978-0-452-28708-2 • $17.00
Also available: The Secret History of the American Empire
978-0-452-28957-4
David Rohde
u BEYOND WAR:
Reimagining America’s
Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East
The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner presents an
incisive look at the calamitous privatization of
the war on terror, arguing that the United
States should scale back ambitions, focusing on
economics and working with Muslim moderates. “[Rohde] expose(s) the deep contradiction
between Washington’s long experiment in
slashing the civilian instruments of American
power and its post-9/11 attempt to use those
same instruments to remake the greater Middle East.”—The New York Times.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-312511-2 • $16.00
Jeffrey Rothfeder
EVERY DROP FOR SALE
Our Desperate Battle Over Water
in a World About to Run Out
New Preface by the Author
“Rothfeder argues that water, not oil, is the fluid
whose scarcity will dominate the twenty-first century...[This book] may finally give this issue the visibility it needs.”—Booklist.
Tarcher • 224 pp. • 978-1-58542-367-5 • $14.95
Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-312501-3 • $17.00
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POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS / RELIGION & ANTHROPOLOGY
Jeffrey D. Sachs
THE END OF POVERTY
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
10th Anniversary Edition
Foreword by Bono
An exploration of the roots of economic prosperity and the path out of extreme poverty for
the world’s poorest citizens.
Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-303658-6 • $18.00
Also of interest: Common Wealth 978-0-14-311487-1
Jonathan Stevenson
LEARNING FROM THE COLD WAR
Rebuilding America’s Strategic
Vision in the 21st Century
This lucid retrospective by one of the most
admired voices in the national security arena
answers an important and largely ignored
question: How can the brilliance and energy of
the great Cold War thinkers be recaptured and
applied to the strategic challenges posed by
transnational terrorism?
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311574-8 • $17.00
RELIGION &
ANTHROPOLOGY
Stephen Belcher
AFRICAN MYTHS OF ORIGIN
A unique anthology of retold fables from Africa with
individual prefaces to each section, which put the
stories in their geographical and social context.
Penguin Classics • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-044945-7 • $18.00
Joseph Campbell
PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY
The Masks of God, Volume I
Campbell discusses the primitive roots of
mythology, examining them in light of the
most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.
Penguin 528 pp. • 978-0-14-019443-2 • $22.00
Also of interest: Creative Mythology: The Masks of God,
Volume IV 978-0-14-019440-1; Occidental Mythology: The
Masks of God, Volume III 978-0-14-019441-8, Myths to Live By
978-0-14-019461-6
ORIENTAL MYTHOLOGY
The Masks of God, Volume II
Campbell offers an explanation of Eastern
mythology as it developed into the distinctive
religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan.
Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-019442-5 • $21.00
Rosalie David
RELIGION AND MAGIC
IN ANCIENT EGYPT
The first complete historical overview of the
beliefs of ancient Egypt reveals the complex
and intriguing world of gods and goddesses.
Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-026252-0 • $17.00
Jared Diamond
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UNTIL YESTERDAY
What Can We Learn from
Traditional Societies?
“Ambitious and erudite, drawing on Diamond’s
seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of fields
such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics,
physiology, nutrition and evolutionary biology.”—Chicago Tribune. “A fascinating and
valuable look at what the rest of us have to
learn from – and perhaps offer to – our more
traditional kin.”—Christian Science Monitor.
Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-312440-5 • $18.00
COLLAPSE
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
This companion volume to Guns, Germs, and Steel
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series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives,
Collapse raises the urgent question: how can our
world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
Includes a chapter on Rwanda’s genocide.
Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-311700-1 • $19.00
Aventis Prize Finalist, New York Times Notable,
Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Economist Best
Book of the Year
Eugene Linden
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RAGGED EDGE OF THE WORLD
Encounters at the Frontier Where
Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous
Peoples Meet
A pioneering work of environmental journalism
that vividly depicts the people, animals and
landscapes of the world’s last wild places, from
pygmy forests to the Antarctic to the world’s
most pristine rainforest in the Congo. “A wellversed guide to complex ecosystems and
remote cultures.”—The New Yorker.
Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-29774-6 • $16.00
Diarmaid MacCulloch
uCHRISTIANITY
The First Three Thousand Years
“A landmark contribution….It is difficult to
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Jon Meacham, The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 978-0-14-311869-5 • $26.00
Dan Morrison
THE BLACK NILE
One Man’s Amazing Journey Through Peace
and War on the World’s Longest River
“This is hard-core African travel...[with] Mr. Morrison’s peppery anecdotes, his refreshing honesty
and his ability to show how Africans view their difficulties….The book gives us a compelling portrait
of life along the Nile-from lonely fishing communities on Lake Victoria to the cacophonous collisions
of Cairo.”—Hugh Pope, The Wall Street Journal .
Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311937-1 • $16.00
Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley, editors
SHAMANS THROUGH TIME
500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
Tarcher • 336 pp. • 978-1-58542-362-0 • $16.95
Stephen Neill
A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS
Heroes, Gods, Tricksters, and Others
A survey of the common myths that connect all
cultures, Eastern and Western, from ancient
times to the present day.
The Penguin History of the Church, Volume 6
Owen Chadwick, general editor
Neill relates the history of Christian expansion
from the early days when Christianity conquered
the Roman world to the enormous increase in
missionary activity in the heyday of colonialism.
Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-01027-7 • $16.00
Penguin • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-013763-7 • $20.00
Alexander Eliot
UNIVERSAL MYTHS
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RELIGION & ANTHROPOLOGY / REFERENCE
THE HEALING WISDOM OF AFRICA
Finding Life Purpose Through
Nature, Ritual, and Community
A complete study of the role ritual plays in the
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for seekers in the West.
Bill Manley
THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL
ATLAS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Traces Egypt’s history from the founding of
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of empire,” to Greek domination and ultimate
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new light on the vast architectural legacy of the
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Tarcher • 352 pp. • 978-0-87477-991-2 • $16.95
Malidoma Patrice Some
OF WATER AND SPIRIT
Ritual, Magic, and Initiation
in the Life of an African Shaman
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Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-019558-3 • $14.00
PENGUIN STATE OF THE
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Colin McEvedy
THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF
AFRICAN HISTORY
Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-051321-9 • $18.00
RITUAL: Power, Healing, and Community
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Saint Augustine
CONFESSIONS
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Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-310570-1 • $16.00
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THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF WOMEN IN
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DESTINATION WILDLIFE
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NELSON MANDELA
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