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Kindred
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.") From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur …
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Blending the fictional with the factual, this highly praised novel ranges from the warm shores of seventeenth-century Barbados to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs …
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Crossing the River
From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and …
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The Pagoda
"Mr. Lowe lives the simple and happy life of a contented shopkeeper. A Chinese immigrant to Jamaica in the 1890s, Lowe revels in the verdant surroundings of his adoptive land. …
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The Renunciation
As the final lecture draws to a close, the audience learns that this archetypal mad genius sided with neither the government and church, which gave him the power he so …
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Oreo
Born to a Jewish father and black mother who divorce before she is two, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia with her maternal grandparents while her mother tours with a theatrical …
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Drown
From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to …
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The Activist
Fiction. African American Studies. Straddling fiction and poetry, Renee Gladman's writing operates on the level of the sentence, constructing suprise and oblique meanings at every turn, and somehow managing the …
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The Women of Tijucopapo
A young woman's journey across Brazil to join the revolution. She is Risia who leaves the slums of her industrial hometown and travels to join a battalion of guerrillas. The …
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The Dark Jester
Wilson Harris is one of the truly unique literary talents of the Caribbean. His novel The Dark Jester recounts Pizarro's conquest of Peru in a fictional meditation on the encounter …
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Salt
A West Indian novel of "generous, torrential prose"(New York Times Book Review), winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. One hundred years after Emancipation, the diverse people of TrinidadAfrican, Asian, …
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The Salt Roads
- The Salt Roads was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-53302-5) in 11/03 and received rave reviews. - Nalo Hopkinson made her debut with Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), winning …
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The Heart of Redness
In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the "new" South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid regime--to find his newly democratic …