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  • Women Writers of Gabon

    Literature and Herstory

    by Cheryl Toman ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon’s literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women’s writing that show it is worthy of critical recognition and that prove why Gabonese women writers must be considered ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Man of Middling Height

    by Fadi Zaghmout, Cheryl Toman ...
    Translated by Wasan Abdelhaq ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    What if our society’s deepest prejudices weren’t about race, gender, or sexuality—but height? In his groundbreaking allegorical novel, acclaimed Jordanian author and activist Fadi Zaghmout imagines just such a world, crafting a powerful meditation on discrimination and desire that speaks directly to our contemporary debates about identity and inclusion.The Man of Middling Height follows a short ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Awu's Story

    A Novel

    by Justine Mintsa ...
    Translated by Cheryl Toman ...
    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, villages in the Fang region of northern Gabon must grapple with the clash of tradition and the evolution of customs throughout modern Africa. With this tension in the background, the passionate, deft, and creative seamstress Awu marries Obame, after he and his beloved wife, Bella, have been unable to conceive. Because all three are reluctant participants in ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Fury and Cries of Women

    by Angèle Rawiri, Professor Cheryl Toman, Ph.D ...
    Translated by Sara Hanaburgh ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • African Women Writing Diaspora

    Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century

    by Rose A. Sackeyfio, Tomi Adeaga, Nancy Henaku, Amanda Lagji, Elijah Adeoluwa Olusegun, Cheryl Toman ...
    African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • The Years

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Amputated Memory

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    by Werewere Liking, Marjolijn de Jager, Michelle Mielly ...
    Series series Women Writing Africa
    A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible.Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The State of Affairs

    Rethinking Infidelity

    by Esther Perel ...
    “Perel is a master at what she does.” ―The New Yorker“[Perel] knows the depth of your shame and the vibrancy of your lust.”- The New York TimesFrom iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity comes a provocative and controversial look at infidelity with practical, honest, and empathetic advice for how to move beyond it.An affair can rob a couple of their relatio... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Last Words from Montmartre

    by Qiu Miaojin, Ari Larissa Heinrich ...
    Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalWhen the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women—their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

    Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

    by Meghan Daum ...
    Sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthologyOne of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society’s most vexing taboos.One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Manipulated Man

    by Esther Vilar ...
    Esther Vilars classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation on its first publication. In her introduction to this revised edition, Vilar maintains that very little has changed. A man is a human being who works, while a woman chooses to let a man provide for her and her children in return for carefully dispensed praise and sex.Vilars perceptive, thought-provoking and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • What Are You Going Through

    by Sigrid Nunez ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, PEOPLE, AND O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINEA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLER“As good as The Friend, if not better.” —The New York Times“Impossible to put down . . . leavened with wit and tenderness.” —People“I was dazed by the novel’s grace.”** —**The New YorkerThe New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award... ... Read more

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