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1 The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past Two tales of a city: The historical race to discover one of the world s most mythologized places, Timbuktu, and the story of a contemporary band of archivists and librarians fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda. Insightful...interesting shows that the sort of willful delusion behind much of the 18th and 19th century quest for Timbuktu continues to this day. The Wall Street Journal PAID The Storied City Presort Std U.S. Postage CHARLIE ENGLISH Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 NEW TITLES RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 416 PAGES $28.00 Walking with Abel Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah In this meditative and poetic account, journalist Badkhen joins a family of Fulani cowboys, nomadic herders in Mali s Sahel grasslands, as they embark on their annual migration. A careful rendering of one of the world s last remaining migratory peoples. The Los Angeles Review of Books RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 C L A U D E M c K AY Amiable with Big Teeth Academic Marketing Department ANNA BADKHEN The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward s collection bone are reflections on a particular life honed to their essence so clear and pared-down, they become universal. Each of the raw and immediate poems resonate to the core of what it means to be human. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 160 PAGES $15.00 INTRODUCTION BY UZODINMA IWEALA A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. It has the rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity. The Times Literary Supplement Beautifully compact...it takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism...it has an undeniable power. Uzodinma Iweala, from the Introduction A Grain of Wheat INTRODUCTION BY ABDULRAZAK GURNAH FO R EW O R D B Y K IES E LAY MO N bone The River Between PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $16.00 Y R S A D A L E Y- W A R D PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child is a moving book about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women and on one family in particular. One of the signal novels to emerge from an artist listening to both the well of tradition and the troubled oracles of his time...to my mind it is classic Ngũgĩ, his Romeo and Juliet, his tale of young love set against the backdrop of opposing families and a world seething with violence and injustice. Ben Okri, from the Introduction RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 240 PAGES $26.00 One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong o s fame, this powerful fictional critique of capitalism is a cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work in their own local dialects it has had a profound influence on Africa and on post-colonial African literature. Ngũgĩ is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing. British Book News One of our century s great novels. Tribune (UK) INTRODUCTION BY BEN OKRI PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER 352 PAGES $28.00 This dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. Never have needful things been so gorgeously displayed. Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y N A M WA L I S E R P E L L Weep Not, Child This newly discovered novel centers on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia. It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers. More important, because it was written in the second half of the period, it shows that the renaissance continued to be vibrant and creative and turned its focus to international issues in this case the tensions between Communists, on the one hand, and black nationalists, on the other, for the hearts and minds of black Americans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Devil on the Cross PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $15.00 ED ITED B Y J EA N - C H R IS TO P H E C LO U TIER AND BRENT HAYES EDWARDS LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH N G Ũ G Ĩ W A T H I O N G O Follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the Emergency. As we learn of the villagers tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 272 PAGES $17.00 Petals of Blood I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y M O S E S I S E G AWA The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 432 PAGES $16.00

2 The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past Two tales of a city: The historical race to discover one of the world s most mythologized places, Timbuktu, and the story of a contemporary band of archivists and librarians fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda. Insightful...interesting shows that the sort of willful delusion behind much of the 18th and 19th century quest for Timbuktu continues to this day. The Wall Street Journal PAID The Storied City Presort Std U.S. Postage CHARLIE ENGLISH Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 NEW TITLES RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 416 PAGES $28.00 Walking with Abel Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah In this meditative and poetic account, journalist Badkhen joins a family of Fulani cowboys, nomadic herders in Mali s Sahel grasslands, as they embark on their annual migration. A careful rendering of one of the world s last remaining migratory peoples. The Los Angeles Review of Books RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 C L A U D E M c K AY Amiable with Big Teeth Academic Marketing Department ANNA BADKHEN The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward s collection bone are reflections on a particular life honed to their essence so clear and pared-down, they become universal. Each of the raw and immediate poems resonate to the core of what it means to be human. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 160 PAGES $15.00 INTRODUCTION BY UZODINMA IWEALA A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. It has the rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity. The Times Literary Supplement Beautifully compact...it takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism...it has an undeniable power. Uzodinma Iweala, from the Introduction A Grain of Wheat INTRODUCTION BY ABDULRAZAK GURNAH FO R EW O R D B Y K IES E LAY MO N bone The River Between PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $16.00 Y R S A D A L E Y- W A R D PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child is a moving book about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women and on one family in particular. One of the signal novels to emerge from an artist listening to both the well of tradition and the troubled oracles of his time...to my mind it is classic Ngũgĩ, his Romeo and Juliet, his tale of young love set against the backdrop of opposing families and a world seething with violence and injustice. Ben Okri, from the Introduction RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 240 PAGES $26.00 One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong o s fame, this powerful fictional critique of capitalism is a cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work in their own local dialects it has had a profound influence on Africa and on post-colonial African literature. Ngũgĩ is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing. British Book News One of our century s great novels. Tribune (UK) INTRODUCTION BY BEN OKRI PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER 352 PAGES $28.00 This dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. Never have needful things been so gorgeously displayed. Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y N A M WA L I S E R P E L L Weep Not, Child This newly discovered novel centers on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia. It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers. More important, because it was written in the second half of the period, it shows that the renaissance continued to be vibrant and creative and turned its focus to international issues in this case the tensions between Communists, on the one hand, and black nationalists, on the other, for the hearts and minds of black Americans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Devil on the Cross PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $15.00 ED ITED B Y J EA N - C H R IS TO P H E C LO U TIER AND BRENT HAYES EDWARDS LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH N G Ũ G Ĩ W A T H I O N G O Follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the Emergency. As we learn of the villagers tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 272 PAGES $17.00 Petals of Blood I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y M O S E S I S E G AWA The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 432 PAGES $16.00

3 The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past Two tales of a city: The historical race to discover one of the world s most mythologized places, Timbuktu, and the story of a contemporary band of archivists and librarians fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda. Insightful...interesting shows that the sort of willful delusion behind much of the 18th and 19th century quest for Timbuktu continues to this day. The Wall Street Journal PAID The Storied City Presort Std U.S. Postage CHARLIE ENGLISH Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 NEW TITLES RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 416 PAGES $28.00 Walking with Abel Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah In this meditative and poetic account, journalist Badkhen joins a family of Fulani cowboys, nomadic herders in Mali s Sahel grasslands, as they embark on their annual migration. A careful rendering of one of the world s last remaining migratory peoples. The Los Angeles Review of Books RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 C L A U D E M c K AY Amiable with Big Teeth Academic Marketing Department ANNA BADKHEN The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward s collection bone are reflections on a particular life honed to their essence so clear and pared-down, they become universal. Each of the raw and immediate poems resonate to the core of what it means to be human. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 160 PAGES $15.00 INTRODUCTION BY UZODINMA IWEALA A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. It has the rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity. The Times Literary Supplement Beautifully compact...it takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism...it has an undeniable power. Uzodinma Iweala, from the Introduction A Grain of Wheat INTRODUCTION BY ABDULRAZAK GURNAH FO R EW O R D B Y K IES E LAY MO N bone The River Between PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $16.00 Y R S A D A L E Y- W A R D PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child is a moving book about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women and on one family in particular. One of the signal novels to emerge from an artist listening to both the well of tradition and the troubled oracles of his time...to my mind it is classic Ngũgĩ, his Romeo and Juliet, his tale of young love set against the backdrop of opposing families and a world seething with violence and injustice. Ben Okri, from the Introduction RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 240 PAGES $26.00 One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong o s fame, this powerful fictional critique of capitalism is a cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work in their own local dialects it has had a profound influence on Africa and on post-colonial African literature. Ngũgĩ is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing. British Book News One of our century s great novels. Tribune (UK) INTRODUCTION BY BEN OKRI PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER 352 PAGES $28.00 This dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. Never have needful things been so gorgeously displayed. Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y N A M WA L I S E R P E L L Weep Not, Child This newly discovered novel centers on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia. It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers. More important, because it was written in the second half of the period, it shows that the renaissance continued to be vibrant and creative and turned its focus to international issues in this case the tensions between Communists, on the one hand, and black nationalists, on the other, for the hearts and minds of black Americans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Devil on the Cross PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $15.00 ED ITED B Y J EA N - C H R IS TO P H E C LO U TIER AND BRENT HAYES EDWARDS LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH N G Ũ G Ĩ W A T H I O N G O Follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the Emergency. As we learn of the villagers tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 272 PAGES $17.00 Petals of Blood I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y M O S E S I S E G AWA The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 432 PAGES $16.00

4 CHINUA ACHEBE MORE TITLES BY CHINUA ACHEBE CLASSROOM FAVORITES EXAMIN ATION COPY ORDER F ORM / AF RICAN STU DIES FAL L 2017 For faster and more accurate ordering, use our online form: The African Trilogy TITLE Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease ISBN FEE FO R EW O R D B Y K WA ME A NTHONY APPIAH Bringing together Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease for the first time in paperback The African Trilogy is a literary landmark, a mythic and universal tale of modern Africa. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. For passion, intellect and crystalline prose, he is unsurpassed. Toni Morrison A magical writer one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Margaret Atwood Achebe s influence should go on and on teaching and reminding that all humankind is one. The Nation MARCUS REDIKER The Slave Ship NURUDDIN FARAH Crossbones NADINE GORDIMER The Conservationist A Human History PENGUIN 400 PAGES $16.00 PENGUIN 272 PP $16.00 Hiding in Plain Sight The Pickup PENGUIN 352 PAGES $17.00 PENGUIN 288 PP $15.00 PENGUIN 448 PAGES $18.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 576 PAGES $25.00 The Amistad Rebellion An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom PENGUIN 320 PAGES $17.00 Things Fall Apart Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, it is a classic narrative about Africa s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law ES KIA MPHAHLELE Down Second Avenue PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PAGES $13.00 FOREWORD BY NGUGI WA THIONG O INTRODUCTION BY ANGELA DAVIS PENGUIN CLASSICS 256 PAGES $17.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS 160 PAGES $15.00 In Corner B INTRODUCTION BY PETER N. THUYNSMA PENGUIN CLASSICS 272 PAGES $17.00 A Man of the People An essential part of Achebe s work which was published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria s first attempted coup in When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 160 PAGES $15.00 There Was a Country A towering account of the Nigerian civil war, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. Chinua Achebe s history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer s brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature in which politico-historical evidence, the power of story-telling, and revelations from the depths of the human subconscious are one. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature PENGUIN PAPERBACK 352 PAGES $17.00 Arrow of God PENGUIN PAPERBACK 240 PAGES $16.00 No Longer at Ease PENGUIN PAPERBACK 208 PAGES $15.00 The Education of a Anthills of the British-Protected Child Savannah ESSAYS PENGUIN PAPERBACK 192 PAGES $14.95 Girls at War Collected Poems Hopes and Impediments PENGUIN PAPERBACK 96 PAGES $14.00 SELECTED ESSAYS Home and Exile PENGUIN PAPERBACK 208 PAGES $14.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PAGES $14.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 132 PAGES $12.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 128 PAGES $14.00 Chike and the River PENGUIN PAPERBACK 96 PAGES $12.00 RUTH FIRST 117 Days 24 Modern African Stories COLIN M c EVEDY The Penguin Atlas of African History NTRODUCTION BY BARBARA H. SOLOMON SIGNET CLASSICS 400 PAGES $8.95 REVISED EDITION ROB SPILLMAN, e d i t o r Gods and Soldiers PENGUIN 144 PAGES $18.00 The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing STEPHEN BELCHER African Myths of Origin PENGUIN 368 PAGES $18.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS 544 PAGES $19.00 PAUL RUSESABAGINA TOM ZOELLNER An Ordinary Man BARBARA H. SOLOMON a n d REGINALD RAMPONE JR. An African Quilt and VARIOUS The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry An Autobiography FIFTH EDITION EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GERALD MOORE PENGUIN 224 PP $16.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS 448 PAGES $20.00 Life Times PENGUIN 560 PAGES $20.00 BAMBA SUSO a n d BANNA KANUTE Sunjata TRANSLATED WITH ANNOTATIONS BY GORDON INNES PENGUIN CLASSICS 160 PP $14.00 J. M. COETZEE Disgrace PENGUIN 224 PAGES $16.00 PLEASE INDICATE YOUR FORM OF PAYMENT BELOW: Visa Master Card AmEx Discover Exp. Date: Card No.: Waiting for the Barbarians Signature: PENGUIN 192 PAGES $15.00 Card Address (if different from shipping address): Scenes from Provincial Life Boyhood, Youth, Summertime Telephone: PENGUIN 496 PP $20.00 SHIP TO: Dusklands PENGUIN 160 PP $14.00 School: The Schooldays of Jesus VIKING 272 PAGES $27.00 Department: Street Address (required): City: State: Zip: THIS ORDER FORM IS FOR BOOKS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR COURSE ADOPTION ONLY. PROMO CODE: P2AFR QUESTIONS? CONTACT US: ACADEMIC@PENGUIN.COM Subtotal: *Sales Tax: Total Fee: *Appropriate state and local sales tax must be included for your order to be processed. PAPERBACKS: UNDER $20.00: $3.00 AT OR OVER $20.00: 50% OFF ALL HARDCOVERS: 50% OFF RETAIL PRICE SEND COMPLETED FORM TO: Penguin Publishing Group Academic Marketing Dept. OR: Use our online form at: Books will be sent to school address only. Allow a minimum of 10 business days for delivery. All examination copy orders require a U.S. ship-to address. For all Canadian orders, visit: penguinrandomhouse.ca/content/ academic-services

5 CHINUA ACHEBE MORE TITLES BY CHINUA ACHEBE CLASSROOM FAVORITES EXAMIN ATION COPY ORDER F ORM / AF RICAN STU DIES FAL L 2017 For faster and more accurate ordering, use our online form: The African Trilogy TITLE Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease ISBN FEE FO R EW O R D B Y K WA ME A NTHONY APPIAH Bringing together Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease for the first time in paperback The African Trilogy is a literary landmark, a mythic and universal tale of modern Africa. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. For passion, intellect and crystalline prose, he is unsurpassed. Toni Morrison A magical writer one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Margaret Atwood Achebe s influence should go on and on teaching and reminding that all humankind is one. The Nation MARCUS REDIKER The Slave Ship NURUDDIN FARAH Crossbones NADINE GORDIMER The Conservationist A Human History PENGUIN 400 PAGES $16.00 PENGUIN 272 PP $16.00 Hiding in Plain Sight The Pickup PENGUIN 352 PAGES $17.00 PENGUIN 288 PP $15.00 PENGUIN 448 PAGES $18.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 576 PAGES $25.00 The Amistad Rebellion An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom PENGUIN 320 PAGES $17.00 Things Fall Apart Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, it is a classic narrative about Africa s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law ES KIA MPHAHLELE Down Second Avenue PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PAGES $13.00 FOREWORD BY NGUGI WA THIONG O INTRODUCTION BY ANGELA DAVIS PENGUIN CLASSICS 256 PAGES $17.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS 160 PAGES $15.00 In Corner B INTRODUCTION BY PETER N. THUYNSMA PENGUIN CLASSICS 272 PAGES $17.00 A Man of the People An essential part of Achebe s work which was published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria s first attempted coup in When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 160 PAGES $15.00 There Was a Country A towering account of the Nigerian civil war, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. Chinua Achebe s history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer s brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature in which politico-historical evidence, the power of story-telling, and revelations from the depths of the human subconscious are one. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature PENGUIN PAPERBACK 352 PAGES $17.00 Arrow of God PENGUIN PAPERBACK 240 PAGES $16.00 No Longer at Ease PENGUIN PAPERBACK 208 PAGES $15.00 The Education of a Anthills of the British-Protected Child Savannah ESSAYS PENGUIN PAPERBACK 192 PAGES $14.95 Girls at War Collected Poems Hopes and Impediments PENGUIN PAPERBACK 96 PAGES $14.00 SELECTED ESSAYS Home and Exile PENGUIN PAPERBACK 208 PAGES $14.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PAGES $14.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 132 PAGES $12.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 128 PAGES $14.00 Chike and the River PENGUIN PAPERBACK 96 PAGES $12.00 RUTH FIRST 117 Days 24 Modern African Stories COLIN M c EVEDY The Penguin Atlas of African History NTRODUCTION BY BARBARA H. SOLOMON SIGNET CLASSICS 400 PAGES $8.95 REVISED EDITION ROB SPILLMAN, e d i t o r Gods and Soldiers PENGUIN 144 PAGES $18.00 The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing STEPHEN BELCHER African Myths of Origin PENGUIN 368 PAGES $18.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS 544 PAGES $19.00 PAUL RUSESABAGINA TOM ZOELLNER An Ordinary Man BARBARA H. SOLOMON a n d REGINALD RAMPONE JR. An African Quilt and VARIOUS The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry An Autobiography FIFTH EDITION EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GERALD MOORE PENGUIN 224 PP $16.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS 448 PAGES $20.00 Life Times PENGUIN 560 PAGES $20.00 BAMBA SUSO a n d BANNA KANUTE Sunjata TRANSLATED WITH ANNOTATIONS BY GORDON INNES PENGUIN CLASSICS 160 PP $14.00 J. M. COETZEE Disgrace PENGUIN 224 PAGES $16.00 PLEASE INDICATE YOUR FORM OF PAYMENT BELOW: Visa Master Card AmEx Discover Exp. Date: Card No.: Waiting for the Barbarians Signature: PENGUIN 192 PAGES $15.00 Card Address (if different from shipping address): Scenes from Provincial Life Boyhood, Youth, Summertime Telephone: PENGUIN 496 PP $20.00 SHIP TO: Dusklands PENGUIN 160 PP $14.00 School: The Schooldays of Jesus VIKING 272 PAGES $27.00 Department: Street Address (required): City: State: Zip: THIS ORDER FORM IS FOR BOOKS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR COURSE ADOPTION ONLY. PROMO CODE: P2AFR QUESTIONS? CONTACT US: ACADEMIC@PENGUIN.COM Subtotal: *Sales Tax: Total Fee: *Appropriate state and local sales tax must be included for your order to be processed. PAPERBACKS: UNDER $20.00: $3.00 AT OR OVER $20.00: 50% OFF ALL HARDCOVERS: 50% OFF RETAIL PRICE SEND COMPLETED FORM TO: Penguin Publishing Group Academic Marketing Dept. OR: Use our online form at: Books will be sent to school address only. Allow a minimum of 10 business days for delivery. All examination copy orders require a U.S. ship-to address. For all Canadian orders, visit: penguinrandomhouse.ca/content/ academic-services

6 CHINUA ACHEBE MORE TITLES BY CHINUA ACHEBE CLASSROOM FAVORITES EXAMIN ATION COPY ORDER F ORM / AF RICAN STU DIES FAL L 2017 For faster and more accurate ordering, use our online form: The African Trilogy TITLE Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease ISBN FEE FO R EW O R D B Y K WA ME A NTHONY APPIAH Bringing together Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease for the first time in paperback The African Trilogy is a literary landmark, a mythic and universal tale of modern Africa. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. For passion, intellect and crystalline prose, he is unsurpassed. Toni Morrison A magical writer one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Margaret Atwood Achebe s influence should go on and on teaching and reminding that all humankind is one. The Nation MARCUS REDIKER The Slave Ship NURUDDIN FARAH Crossbones NADINE GORDIMER The Conservationist A Human History PENGUIN 400 PAGES $16.00 PENGUIN 272 PP $16.00 Hiding in Plain Sight The Pickup PENGUIN 352 PAGES $17.00 PENGUIN 288 PP $15.00 PENGUIN 448 PAGES $18.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 576 PAGES $25.00 The Amistad Rebellion An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom PENGUIN 320 PAGES $17.00 Things Fall Apart Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, it is a classic narrative about Africa s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. 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A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. Chinua Achebe s history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer s brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature in which politico-historical evidence, the power of story-telling, and revelations from the depths of the human subconscious are one. 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7 CHINUA ACHEBE MORE TITLES BY CHINUA ACHEBE CLASSROOM FAVORITES EXAMIN ATION COPY ORDER F ORM / AF RICAN STU DIES FAL L 2017 For faster and more accurate ordering, use our online form: The African Trilogy TITLE Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease ISBN FEE FO R EW O R D B Y K WA ME A NTHONY APPIAH Bringing together Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease for the first time in paperback The African Trilogy is a literary landmark, a mythic and universal tale of modern Africa. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. For passion, intellect and crystalline prose, he is unsurpassed. Toni Morrison A magical writer one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Margaret Atwood Achebe s influence should go on and on teaching and reminding that all humankind is one. The Nation MARCUS REDIKER The Slave Ship NURUDDIN FARAH Crossbones NADINE GORDIMER The Conservationist A Human History PENGUIN 400 PAGES $16.00 PENGUIN 272 PP $16.00 Hiding in Plain Sight The Pickup PENGUIN 352 PAGES $17.00 PENGUIN 288 PP $15.00 PENGUIN 448 PAGES $18.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 576 PAGES $25.00 The Amistad Rebellion An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom PENGUIN 320 PAGES $17.00 Things Fall Apart Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, it is a classic narrative about Africa s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law ES KIA MPHAHLELE Down Second Avenue PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PAGES $13.00 FOREWORD BY NGUGI WA THIONG O INTRODUCTION BY ANGELA DAVIS PENGUIN CLASSICS 256 PAGES $17.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS 160 PAGES $15.00 In Corner B INTRODUCTION BY PETER N. THUYNSMA PENGUIN CLASSICS 272 PAGES $17.00 A Man of the People An essential part of Achebe s work which was published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria s first attempted coup in When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 160 PAGES $15.00 There Was a Country A towering account of the Nigerian civil war, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. Chinua Achebe s history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer s brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature in which politico-historical evidence, the power of story-telling, and revelations from the depths of the human subconscious are one. 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8 The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past Two tales of a city: The historical race to discover one of the world s most mythologized places, Timbuktu, and the story of a contemporary band of archivists and librarians fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda. Insightful...interesting shows that the sort of willful delusion behind much of the 18th and 19th century quest for Timbuktu continues to this day. The Wall Street Journal PAID The Storied City Presort Std U.S. Postage CHARLIE ENGLISH Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 NEW TITLES RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 416 PAGES $28.00 Walking with Abel Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah In this meditative and poetic account, journalist Badkhen joins a family of Fulani cowboys, nomadic herders in Mali s Sahel grasslands, as they embark on their annual migration. A careful rendering of one of the world s last remaining migratory peoples. The Los Angeles Review of Books RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 C L A U D E M c K AY Amiable with Big Teeth Academic Marketing Department ANNA BADKHEN The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward s collection bone are reflections on a particular life honed to their essence so clear and pared-down, they become universal. Each of the raw and immediate poems resonate to the core of what it means to be human. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 160 PAGES $15.00 INTRODUCTION BY UZODINMA IWEALA A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. It has the rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity. The Times Literary Supplement Beautifully compact...it takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism...it has an undeniable power. Uzodinma Iweala, from the Introduction A Grain of Wheat INTRODUCTION BY ABDULRAZAK GURNAH FO R EW O R D B Y K IES E LAY MO N bone The River Between PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $16.00 Y R S A D A L E Y- W A R D PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child is a moving book about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women and on one family in particular. One of the signal novels to emerge from an artist listening to both the well of tradition and the troubled oracles of his time...to my mind it is classic Ngũgĩ, his Romeo and Juliet, his tale of young love set against the backdrop of opposing families and a world seething with violence and injustice. Ben Okri, from the Introduction RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 240 PAGES $26.00 One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong o s fame, this powerful fictional critique of capitalism is a cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work in their own local dialects it has had a profound influence on Africa and on post-colonial African literature. Ngũgĩ is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing. British Book News One of our century s great novels. Tribune (UK) INTRODUCTION BY BEN OKRI PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER 352 PAGES $28.00 This dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. Never have needful things been so gorgeously displayed. Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y N A M WA L I S E R P E L L Weep Not, Child This newly discovered novel centers on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia. It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers. More important, because it was written in the second half of the period, it shows that the renaissance continued to be vibrant and creative and turned its focus to international issues in this case the tensions between Communists, on the one hand, and black nationalists, on the other, for the hearts and minds of black Americans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Devil on the Cross PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $15.00 ED ITED B Y J EA N - C H R IS TO P H E C LO U TIER AND BRENT HAYES EDWARDS LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH N G Ũ G Ĩ W A T H I O N G O Follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the Emergency. As we learn of the villagers tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 272 PAGES $17.00 Petals of Blood I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y M O S E S I S E G AWA The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 432 PAGES $16.00