Books like Season of Migration to the North
A young Sudanese man, back in his Nile village after seven years studying in England, finds a stranger living there, Mustafa Sa'eed, who has his own story of London.
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Foe
Susan Barton, cast away on an island with a man called Cruso and his tongueless servant Friday, comes back to England and asks the writer Daniel Foe to make her story into a book.
Adrift on the Nile
Anis Zaki, a civil servant in a pointless job, spends his nights smoking hashish with a circle of friends on a houseboat on the Nile.
Petals of Blood
Four suspects in a murder reveal the story of a Kenyan village devoured by postcolonial capitalism.
In a Free State
Linked stories of people adrift in foreign places; in the title novella, two English expatriates drive across an East African country in the middle of a coup.
The Meursault Investigation
Harun, an old man in a bar in Oran, tells the story of his brother, the Arab shot on a beach in Camus's The Stranger, who was never even given a name.
Samskara
When Naranappa, a Brahmin who broke every rule, dies in a south Indian village, the other Brahmins can't decide who should perform his last rites, and Praneshacharya, the most learned of them, faces his own crisis.
A Bend in the River
Salim, from an Indian Muslim family long settled on the East African coast, takes over a shop in a town at the bend of a great river in the African interior, in the years after independence.
A Grain of Wheat
In a Kenyan village in the days before independence in 1963, the villagers want to honour Mugo, a quiet man they believe was a hero of the Mau Mau struggle.
No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
The Twyborn Affair
Before the First World War, Eudoxia Vatzatzis lives as the young companion of an elderly Greek on the French Riviera, the first of the lives of Eddie Twyborn, a Sydney judge's son.
Woman at Point Zero
Firdaus, a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison for killing a man, tells a psychiatrist the story of her life.
The Human Stain
A classics professor in late-1990s New England takes a young mistress and watches his carefully constructed life collapse under the weight of a secret he's kept for fifty years.