A broad spectrum of poetsincluding Tupac Shakur, Ntozake Shange, and Seamus Heaneypay tribute to Nelson Mandela in this collection that stretches from Mandela’s imprisonment in 1963 to his 87th birthday in 2005. Nearly 100 poems from 25 countries reflect Mandela’s widespread influence, recognizing the passion he inspires and celebrating his legacy of antiapartheid actions.

Halala Madiba: Nelson Mandela in Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Aflame Books

Set in modern-day Luanda, this satirical crime novel introduces readers to Jaime Bunda, an overweight, incompetent detective set on the trail of a murderer. Through misstep and mistake, Bunda finds himself embroiled in crimes of passion and international criminal networks as he stumbles through contemporary Angola. This mystery pokes fun at the James Bond genre while offering humorous insight into contemporary Angolan culture.

Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent: Story of Various Mysteries

Pepetela

World Literature

Vividly capturing the troubled reality of war-torn Guatemala, this tale depicts a young psychology student who escapes to the United States. While abroad, and after learning of his brother's death at the hands of the military, he deals with his grief by establishing a center for victims of torture. Unable to adapt to a life abroad, he soon returns to Guatemala where he begins to offer therapy. One of his first patients is a military torturer desperate to emancipate himself from the guilt of his heinous crimes—one of which the psychologist soon learns is the murder of his brother. Embodying both sides of the terrifying 30-year conflict in Guatemala, this compelling thriller explores the confused, postwar condition of unfulfilled reconciliation forever on the verge of recrimination.

Final Silence

Ronald Flores

Genre Fiction

A series of murders committed with dreadful sadism by a psychopathic killer shakes Costa Rica like one of the earth tremors that periodically bedevil Central America. The police and press compete to uncover the murderer's grisly trail - leading to a passionate encounter between a detective and an astonishing female reporter whose charms are her most powerful investigative tool.

Cadence of the Moon

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Olivas, Oscar Nunez

Mystery

Based on real events, this true crime novel tells the story of Mauricia Hernandez, who scandalized Guatemala in 1939 by poisoning her unloving husband. It is both the story of a woman lashing out at an unforgiving macho society and an exploration of life in Guatemala in the 1930s and 1940s, weaving the story of one woman together with the lost stories of thousands of other peasant women who, like her, faced challenges and unhappy realities in their homes, at their churches, and under their governments.

From the Darkness

Salazar, Oswaldo

Celebrating one of the greatest revolutionary and romantic figures in history, this collection is the first to reveal English-language poems and songs about Che Guevara. Fully exploring the Latin American figure through the written word, this study defies superficial differences, revealing instead the universal themes that poets of all nations and languages share.

Che in Verse

A contemporary version of the Cain and Abel story, this novel was greeted with widespread praise when it was first published in Iran in 1989. Set in the northern town of Ardabil in the aftermath of the Second World War, the story begins as Urhan Urkhani, a prominent citizen of the town, sets out to find his brother in a midwinter snowstorm. Over the course of that day-long search, the entire history of the family is revealed in four symphony-like movements. Told through the rotating viewpoints of the family patriarch and each of his four children, the family's misfortunes become the mirror of a paternalistic and oppressive society that pits brother against brother, encourages a father to denounce a son and burn his poems, forces a daughter to remain in an unhappy marriage, and abandons the last child to a mysterious hidden existence.

Symphony of the Dead

Maroufi, Abbas

From Angola, a country riddled with civil war and it’s aftereffects for the last 30 years, comes a surprising story of hope, passion, and magical realism from a groundbreaking, young African novelist. A young man arrives at the church of a small African village and starts whistling so beautifully that the priest is left in tears. As his weeklong stay continues, the whistler finds himself affected by the colorful inhabitants of the village as they all become bewitched and surrender to the moods of his melodies.

The Whistler

Science Fiction & Fantasy

ONDJAKI

Fantasy

Breaking with traditional narrative form by using all the various voices of its diverse characters, this tense thriller mixes family, political scandal, revenge, and stars in the Amazon jungle. Ever since the day her father was assaulted and made an invalid, Isabela Pastir has watched the attacker rise to power as the governor of the state of Pará and one of the most significant drug dealers in the Amazon region. In an effort to get close to him and learn his secrets, she becomes his lover and suddenly finds herself pregnant. Now her brother, who has been attempting to repress the family tragedy, finds himself abandoning his life in the United States to travel back to his hometown in search of his sister—and to seek the vengeance for that which he was unable to leave behind.

Hornets' Nest

AUGUSTO, Edyr

Thrillers & Suspense

Translated for the first time from Africa's native Zulu language, this novel set in apartheid-era rural South Africa follows an urban swindler as he attempts to take advantage of well-meaning but naive villagers, claiming to be on a mission of salvation—but in truth looking for instant riches. Both hilarious and tender, it explores the fateful confrontation between pastoral benevolence and urban slyness in a peasant countryside that is being destroyed by the rapid loss of land and liberties.

The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg

Nyembezi, Sibusiso

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