Nathacha Appanah

• Jun-2009
• / Women's Fiction
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Exposing the extremes of life in a developing country, this compelling novel of doomed love shows how poverty, class divisions, and ramshackle housing become even harder to bear when luxurious resorts and rich tourists ...

• Feb-2011
• / Literary
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In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a daily struggle for his f...

• Apr-2018
• / Literary
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A powerful examination of the artistic impulse, cultural identity, and family bondsAnita is waiting for Adam to be released from prison. They met twenty years ago at a New Year’s Eve party in Paris, a city where they both felt out of place -- he ...

• May-2020
• / Literary
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A potent novel about lost youth and migration by the author of The Last Brother and Waiting for TomorrowMarie, a nurse in Mayotte, a far-flung, tropical department of France in the Indian Ocean, adopts a baby abandoned at birth by his mother, a refug...

• Jan-2022
• / General Fiction
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A propulsive, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured family and the persistence of hopeIt all begins with a crash. One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother’s car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction
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Nothing Belongs to You is a physical novel - its sentences grab you by the throat, devour you, haunt you. The prose is magnificent because from its shadows and its ghosts, a light emerges, despite everything. A tour de force—Mohammed Aïssa...