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The SUSU Bookshop: works of African and diaspora literature, catalogued and presented by our team. For each book, read an excerpt on the site; buy it here in print or as a downloadable e-book, or find it from our partners with “Where to find it”.
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Americanah
Ifemelu et Obinze s'aiment adolescents, à Lagos, sous une dictature militaire qui referme lentement les issues. Elle part pour les États-Unis… -
Le pauvre Christ de Bomba
Sud Cameroun, années 1930. Le Révérend Père Supérieur Drumont sillonne son immense paroisse pour raviver une foi qu'il croit vacillante. Nous ne…Read an excerpt — Le pauvre Christ de Bomba Where to find it — Le pauvre Christ de Bomba
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Les impatientes
Trois femmes. Trois voix entrelacées. Un seul mot d'ordre, transmis de mère en fille, de belle-mère en belle-fille, de génération en génération…Read an excerpt — Les impatientes Where to find it — Les impatientes
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Petit pays
Bujumbura, au début des années 1990. Une impasse dans un quartier confortable, des manguiers, l'odeur de citronnelle, une bande d'enfants… -
Une si longue lettre
Ramatoulaye Fall vient de perdre son mari. Pendant les quarante jours du deuil islamique, recluse dans sa maison de Dakar, elle écrit une longue…Read an excerpt — Une si longue lettre Where to find it — Une si longue lettre
Community texts listed in the bookshop
Spotted on SUSU LAB
Texts published by authors of the SUSU LAB community, the writing and reading platform, and spotted by the editorial team. They can be read freely on the platform; the Bookshop points them out to its readers.
Book of the month
Les impatientes
Three women. Three intertwined voices. A single watchword, passed down from mother to daughter in the Cameroonian Sahel: munyal, patience. Patience as the supreme virtue, the only response allowed to pain, to humiliation, to a confiscated life.
Les impatientes follows Ramla, Hindou and Safira through forced marriages and silences that serve as law: three destinies, three ways of resisting or giving in.
“The SUSU Bookshop needs it not because it won a prize, but because it is right.”
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Petit pays
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No home
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Americanah
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Une si longue lettre
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Ma sœur, serial killeuse – version française de My sister, the serial killer
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Le pauvre Christ de Bomba
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Notre quelque part
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Les impatientes
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