Sudan

Books in this genre are set in or about Sudan.

Season of Migration to the North
What Is the What
A Long Walk to Water
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Lyrics Alley
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
River Spirit
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Ghost Season
Minaret
The Translator
عرس الزين
The Red Pencil
Slave: My True Story
Home of the Brave
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
547 books — 265 voters

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,754 books — 1,633 voters


Dave Eggers
The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.
Dave Eggers, What Is the What

Christopher Hitchens
There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of so-called 'popular culture' or (to redefine this subject) anyone who is uneasy about the systematic, massified cretinization of the major media. If you denounce the excess coverage, you are yourself adding to the excess. If you show even a slight knowledge of the topic, you betray an interest in something that you wish to denounce as unimportant or irrelevant. Some writers try to have this both ways, by making their columns ...more
Christopher Hitchens

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