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Post Colonial Literature Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 405,243 ratings — published 1958
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,231 ratings — published 1981
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.59 — 104,211 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 318,893 ratings — published 1997
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 178,329 ratings — published 2006
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 32,582 ratings — published 1966
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 70,716 ratings — published 1988
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 783,435 ratings — published 1998
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 157,661 ratings — published 1995
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,632 ratings — published 1988
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 281,063 ratings — published 2003
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.79 — 171,844 ratings — published 2000
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,279 ratings — published 1988
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 83,053 ratings — published 2007
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.43 — 548,709 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,935 ratings — published 1999
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,049 ratings — published 1961
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,423,662 ratings — published 2003
Cereus Blooms at Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,627 ratings — published 1996
No Telephone to Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,391 ratings — published 1987
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 404,466 ratings — published 2013
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.77 — 200,719 ratings — published 2008
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,686 ratings — published 1984
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.42 — 12,289 ratings — published 1986
The Secret River (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,755 ratings — published 2005
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,993 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,078,738 ratings — published 1967
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,785 ratings — published 1978
Island of Shattered Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 401 ratings — published 1991
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 84,730 ratings — published 1924
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,690 ratings — published 1993
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 34,988 ratings — published 1980
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.47 — 390,476 ratings — published 2016
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,882 ratings — published 1999
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,474 ratings — published 1966
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 379,837 ratings — published 1937
Indian Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.41 — 33,414 ratings — published 2012
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,697 ratings — published 1960
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,014 ratings — published 1964
Obasan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,256 ratings — published 1981
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,001 ratings — published 1983
Green Grass, Running Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,356 ratings — published 1993
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,695,647 ratings — published 2007
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 137,905 ratings — published 1992
Annie John (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 12,759 ratings — published 1985
Kanthapura (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,545 ratings — published 1938
Nectar in a Sieve (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,744 ratings — published 1954
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,258 ratings — published 1990
In the Castle of My Skin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,024 ratings — published 1953
The Mimic Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-literature)
avg rating 3.37 — 1,331 ratings — published 1967
“In the nights though, I couldn't help but weave the golden cloth of my dreams. Each stitch from heart to thought, and thought to heart, was painful to bear, even if it was joyous at times. Because each thread was fraught with the fears of being broken midway, lost and never found again.
Nida”
― This House of Clay and Water
Nida”
― This House of Clay and Water
“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
