Afrika - tisdagstrio

By the Sea (Vid havet 2001) av Abdulrazak Gurnah - On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection.

En storm kom från paradiset av Johannes Anyuru (från Hisingen) berättar om hans far och hans liv som stridspilot i Ugandas flygvapen. En komplicerad historia, när krig råder och maktstrukturer förändras.

Girl (2019) av Edna O'Brien - I was a girl once, but not anymore. So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest.

Afrika - tisdagstrio hos: RobertW