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Post Colonial Literature Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 418,214 ratings — published 1958
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,320 ratings — published 1981
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.59 — 109,018 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,376 ratings — published 1997
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,246 ratings — published 1966
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,502 ratings — published 1988
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,202 ratings — published 1988
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,026 ratings — published 2006
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 800,677 ratings — published 1998
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,177 ratings — published 2003
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.79 — 177,082 ratings — published 2000
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.43 — 565,287 ratings — published 1899
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,667 ratings — published 1995
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,565 ratings — published 1988
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,153 ratings — published 2007
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,989 ratings — published 1999
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,508 ratings — published 1961
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,538,476 ratings — published 2003
No Telephone to Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,430 ratings — published 1987
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 418,365 ratings — published 2013
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,453 ratings — published 2008
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,258 ratings — published 1984
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,700 ratings — published 1986
The Secret River (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,557 ratings — published 2005
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,039 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,122,381 ratings — published 1967
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 146,346 ratings — published 2003
Island of Shattered Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 420 ratings — published 1991
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 86,643 ratings — published 1924
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,870 ratings — published 1993
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,345 ratings — published 1980
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.47 — 413,454 ratings — published 2016
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 208,099 ratings — published 1999
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,643 ratings — published 1966
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 392,559 ratings — published 1937
Indian Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,273 ratings — published 2012
Obasan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,438 ratings — published 1981
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,207 ratings — published 1983
Cereus Blooms at Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,731 ratings — published 1996
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,767,164 ratings — published 2007
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 140,376 ratings — published 1992
Annie John (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,997 ratings — published 1985
Kanthapura (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,592 ratings — published 1938
Nectar in a Sieve (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,923 ratings — published 1954
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,358 ratings — published 1990
In the Castle of My Skin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,084 ratings — published 1953
The Mimic Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,361 ratings — published 1967
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,996 ratings — published 1929
Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 21,924 ratings — published 1988
Potiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,553 ratings — published 1986
“I've gone and hired myself out. I've hired myself out to Death.”
― The Fifty Minute Mermaid
― The Fifty Minute Mermaid
“The Whiteman told of another country beyond the sea where a powerful woman sat on a throne while men and women danced under the shadow of her authority and benevolence. She was ready to spread the shadow to cover the Agikuyu. They laughed at this eccentric man whose skin had been so scalded that the black outside had peeled off. The hot water must have gone into his head.
Nevertheless, his words about a woman on the throne echoed something in the heart, deep down in their history. It was many, many years ago. Then women ruled the land of the Agikuyu. Men had no property, they were only there to serve the whims and needs of the women. Those were hard years. So they waited for women to go to war, they plotted a revolt, taking an oath of secrecy to keep them bound each to each in the common pursuit of freedom. They would sleep with all the women at once, for didn't they know the heroines would return hungry for love and relaxation? Fate did the rest; women were pregnant; the takeover met with little resistance.”
― A Grain of Wheat
Nevertheless, his words about a woman on the throne echoed something in the heart, deep down in their history. It was many, many years ago. Then women ruled the land of the Agikuyu. Men had no property, they were only there to serve the whims and needs of the women. Those were hard years. So they waited for women to go to war, they plotted a revolt, taking an oath of secrecy to keep them bound each to each in the common pursuit of freedom. They would sleep with all the women at once, for didn't they know the heroines would return hungry for love and relaxation? Fate did the rest; women were pregnant; the takeover met with little resistance.”
― A Grain of Wheat
