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Sudan

Books in this genre are set in or about Sudan.

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The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway

A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn

Historical Romance Set in Africa

52 books — 21 voters

The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad Akreyi

Sketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers

Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi

Must Reads

182 books — 154 voters

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

African Writers Series

239 books — 63 voters

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy

21 books — 8 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Around the World One Book from Each Country

1,068 books — 971 voters

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire (fiction)

313 books — 199 voters

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“ By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe. He is no towering oak tree with luxurious branches growing in a land on which Nature has bestowed water and fertility, rather he is like the sayal bushes in the deserts of the Sudan, thick of bark and sharp of thorn, defeating death because they ask so little of life. ”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

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“ So, your friends call you Bastian. Your enemies call you asshole. What do lovers call you?” “Why do you want to know?” She smiled up at the stars. “Future reference. ”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst

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