Interrogating Colonialism

Updated November 19, 2024
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Wandering Stars : A Novel
Orange, Tommy.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize * A New York Times Editors' Choice * An NPR Book of the Day * Named a Best Book of 2024 (So Far) by the New York Times, Esquire, Vulture, W Magazine, Indigo, Audible, and Barnes & Noble...
Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War   "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial...
One hundred years of solitude
Garca̕ Mr̀quez, Gabriel
Paper Book
Soon to be a Netflix original series! "One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is...
The crucible : a play in four acts
Miller, Arthur
Paper Book
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic   "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an...
Half of a yellow sun
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the "21st century daughter" of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's...
The god of small things
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
A beautiful reissue of the Booker Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling novel about an Indian family in tragic decline. Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and...
The lowland
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Paper Book
WINNER 2015 - DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling...
Ahimsa
Kelkar, Supriya
Paper Book
In this historical middle-grade novel, Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work. In 1942, when Mahatma...
Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua
CD
With over eight million copies in print world wide, Achebe's work is a definitive novel in African literature. Filled with powerful language and finely drawn characters, Things Fall Apart also shimmers with the sounds and sights of village life. Okonkwo is born into poverty, with a wastrel for a...
The inheritance of loss
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
Midnight's children
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS * SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
Indian horse
Wagamese, Richard.
Paper Book
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he's sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he'll find it only through telling his...
Pachinko
Lee, Min Jin.
Paper Book
In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan-the inspiration for the television series on Apple TV+.  In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored...
We need new names : a novel
Bulawayo, NoViolet.
Paper Book
A remarkable literary debut shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America. Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her...
The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of Native People in North America
King, Thomas
Paper Book
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indian is at once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history--in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in...
This place : 150 years retold
Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
Paper Book
"This Place is the graphic novel I've waited for my whole life, and the graphic novel Canada has needed for 150 years." --Jesse Wente, broadcaster and film critic Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology....
Berry Pickers : A Novel
Peters, Amanda
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER 2023 BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE WINNER of the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL for EXCELLENCE in FICTION WINNER Best First Novel, Crime Writers of Canada Award WINNER Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction FINALIST Amazon First Novel Award ...
Wandering Stars : A Novel
Orange, Tommy.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize * A New York Times Editors' Choice * An NPR Book of the Day * Named a Best Book of 2024 (So Far) by the New York Times, Esquire, Vulture, W Magazine, Indigo, Audible, and Barnes & Noble...
The lowland
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Paper Book
WINNER 2015 - DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling...

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