Adé: A Love Story

In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together—free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers’ solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish. Haunting, exquisite, and certain to become a classic, Adé will stay with you long after you put it down. This is a timeless love story set perfectly, heartbreakingly, in our time.

Literature & Fiction

Walker, Rebecca

Literary

Little A / New Harvest

Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Demco Media

In a memoir about the power of race to shape one's personal identity, the daughter of a Jewish father and African American mother recalls her confusing but ultimately rewarding life lived between two conflicting ethnic identities

Black, White And Jewish (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

Enduring violence: Everyday life and conflict in eastern Sri Lanka (New Ethnographies)

Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. The core of the book comes from the author's two-year close interaction with a group of (mainly women) human rights activists in the area. The book describes how the activists work in clandestine, informal ways to support families whose loved ones have been threatened, disappeared or killed and how they build networks of trust within the context of everyday violence. As Sri Lanka faces up to the enormity of the task of 'post-war reconciliation', this book aims to create a wider conversation about grief, resistance and healing in the context of violence and its long afterlife.

History

Asia

Manchester University Press

Time for Us

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

DK Children

Becky's Brunch & Breakfast Book: Recipes & Menus to Get Your Day Off to Its Very Best Start

Rebecca J. Walker

Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Americas

Riverhead Books

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In this stunning debut novel, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together--free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers' solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish. 
Haunting, exquisite, and certain to become a classic, Adé will stay with you long after you put it down. This is a timeless love story set perfectly, heartbreakingly, in our time.

Little A

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