> I highly recommend these three:
> Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee;
> and The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa.


And "No Longer At Ease", the underrated sort-of sequel to "Things Fall
Apart" is worth a look.  You can get those two books bundled into a single
paberback volume with "Anthills of the Savannah"...

Alasdair Brooks




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