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A sensitive and touching story of a child exposed too early to religious intolerance and

the uglier side of the Nigerian state.' 'Political brutality and domestic violence, religion

and witchcraft all merge with subtle force in this memorable novel. It ensnares the

reader from the first page and lingers in the memory! In soft, searing voice, Adichie

examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but

hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.

PBL:FEB 2005

While tackling a difficult subject, the lead up to and the course of Nigeria's Biafra War

in the 1960's, it is told in a very readable and accessible way. The events unfold

through the eyes of three central characters who are swept along in the chaos of civil

war

PBL: JAN 2007

Balram Halwai is a poor low-caste Indian, the son of a rickshaw-puller who somehow

manages to crawl his way up to be an entrepreneur in Bangalore. He tells his story via

a series of letters written to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier who is about to visit

Bangalore.

PBL: MAR 2008

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The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled

Cloth Girl Heward-Mills, Marilyn

Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to

win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His

loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this is 1970s

Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street,

although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage and the place he holds in his

father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on

the afternoon of the tournament, which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians

invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must

return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption

PBL:JUN 2004

Matilda Quartey is fourteen years old when sophisticated black Gold Coast lawyer,

Robert Bannerman, sets eyes on her and resolves to take her as his second wife. For

Julie, his first wife, this is a colossal slap in the face; for Matilda it is an abrupt -- and

cruel -- end to childhood. Entwined with their story -- by turns funny and

heartbreaking -- is that of Alan Turton, new ADC to the Governor and his dissatisfied

wife, Audrey, a hard-drinking accident waiting to happen, who is appalled by her new

life. Marilyn Heward Mills's Africa is a cauldron of contradictions: fatalistic but

brimming with optimism; outwardly Christian, yet profoundly superstitious and reliant

on fetish priests; poverty-stricken, but rich in pride and family values; vibrant with

colour yet darkened by violence; exhausting, yet exhilarating. For Matilda it is her

passionately loved homeland. For Audrey it is a prison. For the men it is a land of

opportunity, where careers can be made and broken, fortunes lost and won. And for

all of them the events of these ten years will shape and define their lives forever.

PBL: JUN 2006


The Association of Foreign Spouses Heward-Mills, Marilyn

Animal's People Sinha, Indra

Marriage to a handsome Ghanaian architect has brought Eva far from

the quiet English countryside. Alfred had made it sound heavenly but

the hardship drained her of vitality and the foreign culture bewildered

her. But Eva has her friends ? Dahlia, Yelena and Margrit ? all of

them strangers in a foreign land, who rely on each other to fill the

gaps left by distant relatives. When a sudden coup unnerves

everyone, and Eva's relationship with Alfred begins to unravel, The

Association of Foreign Spouses discover that there are dark sides to

their lives and that they must scheme and deceive to protect

themselves and their families. Set in Ghana in the turbulent eighties,

The Association of Foreign Spouses is a story of a group of women

who live in a land that at times defeats them, amongst people who

often disappoint and baffle them. Yet through their trials and

hardships, the women support each other, unified by their

foreignness, as ultimately, they are wooed by this strange place that

they come to call 'home'.

PBL: FEB 2011

Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of

what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the

Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth

existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights

fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must

be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open

a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk - only to find herself struggling to convince

them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' - Animal plunges into a

web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his

own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity,

Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the

very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending. ANIMAL'S PEOPLE is a

stunningly humane work of storytelling that takes us right to the heart of

contemporary India.

PBL: FEB 2008


Title Author Prize

Winner

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The Making of Mr Hai's Daughter Hai, Yasmin

The Hindi Bindi Club Pradhan, Monica

Title Author Prize

Winner

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On Beauty Smith, Zadie

BLACK INTEREST

Description

Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding

families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals

among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love.

For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our

uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

PBL: JUL 2006

Autobiographies

Description

Mr Hai arrived in London in 1964. But, while becoming British via a passport had been

relatively easy, becoming English was something to be studied - and then passed on,

first to his wife, newly arrived from Pakistan, and then to his children. No more

speaking Urdu, no more long plaits, no shalwar kameezes, and - even though they

were Muslim - no more religion. Mr Hai put his family firmly on the road to

assimilation, and his first-born daughter Yasmin was his star pupil. However, being

second-generation British Asian was not quite so simple ...especially as their Muslim

community was about to go through some very profound changes and challenges.

Brilliantly told, with intelligence and humour and passion, this is a fascinating story

about immigration and identity, about religion and roots, and about a daughter's

understanding of her father.

PBL: APR 2008

For decades they have remained close, sharing recipes, customs and the challenges of

women shaped by ancient ways yet living modern lives. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club,

a nickname given by their daughters to the mothers who left India to start anew in

America daughters now grown, and facing struggles of their own. For Kiran, Preity,

and Rani, adulthood means seeking a balance, from the ways they tweak their

mothers' cooking to suit their Western lifestyles to the ways they reject their parents'

most fervent beliefs. Now, bearing the disappointments and successes of their chosen

paths, they are drawn home. Kiran, now divorced, will seek a new beginning - this

time requesting the aid of an ancient tradition she once dismissed. Preity will confront

an old heartbreak, and a hidden shame. And Rani will face her demons as an artist and

a wife. All will question whether they have the courage of the Hindi-Bindi Club to hold

onto their dreams - or create new ones.

PBL: JUL 2007


Island Song's Wheatle, Alex

Animal's People Sinha, Indra

Purple Hibiscus Adichie, C. N

"She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into ? the

tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures

and see the outside world." But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendents of

the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the world, and 'Island Songs' is their story.

Growing up in rural Claremont, working amid the hustle and bustle, lawn parties and

'houses of joy' in Trenchtown, the two sisters take a chance and move to England with

their husbands, that far-off land of riches, where they settle down to motherhood

amongst the jazz cafes and bleak streets of Brixton. A beautiful evocation of twentieth-

century Jamaica, its history and traditions, and equivocal status as an overlooked

outpost of the dwindling British Empire,' Island Songs' is an epic of love, diaspora, and

sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never

revealed

PBL: MAY 2006

Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of

what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the

Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth

existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights

fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must

be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open

a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk - only to find herself struggling to convince

them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' - Animal plunges into a

web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his

own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity,

Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the

very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending. ANIMAL'S PEOPLE is a

stunningly humane work of storytelling that takes us right to the heart of

contemporary India.

PBL: FEB 2008

A sensitive and touching story of a child exposed too early to religious intolerance and

the uglier side of the Nigerian state.' 'Political brutality and domestic violence, religion

and witchcraft all merge with subtle force in this memorable novel. Ensnares the

reader from the first page and lingers in the memory!in soft, searing voice, Adichie

examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but

hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.

PBL:Feb 2005

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