INST 260 (GLENNA JACKSON) -- FICTION ABOUT OTHER NATIONS
 Afghanistan |
Kosovo (Serbia & Montenegro) |
| Bosnia |
Mexico |
| Egypt |
Nicaragua |
| El Salvador |
Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) |
| Haiti |
Quebec (Canada) |
| Indonesia |
South Africa |
| Israel and Palestine |
Desai, Ketan
Germs of War
PZ4.D475 Ge 1999
A novel about biological terrorism and its consequences set in the United
States and Afghanistan.
Harvey, Caroline
Legacy of Love
PZ4.H263 Le 2000
An exploration of family life combined with a gripping story of bravery,
tragedy, and love set in British Afghanistan and covering the time period
from the middle nineteenth century to World War II.
Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner
PZ4.H6773 Ki 2003
A story of the dangers and difficulties of life in contemporary Afghanistan.
Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns
PZ4.H6773 Th 2007
A story of women's lives in Afghanistan.
Shah, Amira
Tales of Afghanistan
GR302.5 .S434 1982
A collection of folktales and stories from Afghanistan.
Varney, Charles and Akbar, Abdullah
The Jewel Carriers
PZ4.V375 Je 1999
A novel about the Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
in 1979.
Andric, Ivo
Bosnian Chronicle
PG1418.A6 T714 1993
Set in the town of Travnik in Bosnia, the novel delves deeply into the turbulent
Bosnian heritage -- presenting the stories of Bosnian men and women living
perilous and extraordinary lives amid oppression and cruelty, ever haunted
by visions of freedom and dignity which history has dangled before them
but has been painfully slow to deliver.
Andric, Ivo
The Bridge on the Drina
PG1418.A6 D562 1959
This novel explores three and a half centuries of Bosnian history focusing
on the theme of human isolation.
Andric, Ivo
The Day of the Consuls
PG1418.A6 T713 1992
The novel covers the years 1807-1814 when French and Austrian consuls served
alongside Turkish viziers in the Bosnian town of Travnik, an outpost of
the Ottoman Empire. The divided Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Christians,
Jews, and Gypsies unite in their contempt for the visitors.
Andric, Ivo
Devil's Yard
PG1418.A6 P764 1962
This novel tells the story of prisoners being held in an Istanbul jail.
Cosic, Dobrica
This Land This Time
PG1419.C63 V7213 1983 v.1-4
This four volume set includes the following titles: Into the Battle,
A Time of Death, Reach to Eternity, and South to Destiny.
All four volumes cover the tragedy and drama of World War I in Serbia.
Drakulic, Slavenka
Marble Skin
PG1619.14.R34 M7313 1994
The complex relationship of a woman and her mother is explored.
Gorup, Radmilla J. (Ed.)
The Prince of Fire : An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories
PG1595.E8 P75 1998
A collection of short stories by Serbian authors.
Johnson, Bernard
New Writing in Yugoslavia
PG584.E1 J6
A collection of short stories from the former Yugoslavia.
Kis, Danilo
The Encyclopedia of the Dead
PG1419.21.I8 E513 1991
A collection of short stories by a Serbian writer about death, literature,
and love.
Kis, Danilo
Garden Ashes
PG1419.21.I8 G3 1975
The story of a boy growing up in the shadow of a brilliant and destructive
father in Yugoslavia during World War II.
Kis, Danilo
Hourglass
PG1419.21.I8 P413 1990
The life of an ordinary man is followed through the last months before he
is rounded up and sent to a concentration camp.
Pavic, Milorad
Landscape Painted With Tea
PG1419.26.A78 P713 1991
The novel explores the life of a failed architect in Belgrade and his search
for his father who vanished in Greece during World War II.
Mahfouz, Naguib
Midaq Alley
PJ7846.A46 Z4813 1992
Explores the lives of the residents of one of the busy, teeming back alleys
of Cairo.
Mahfouz, Naguib
Miramar
PJ7846.A46 M513 1989
A story of the interlocking lives of a group of people staying in an Alexandria,
Egypt hotel.
Mahfouz, Naguib
Palace of Desire
PJ7846.A46 Q313 1992
An intricate and complex tragedy of patriarchy in an Egyptian family.
Mahfouz, Naguib
Palace Walk
PJ7846.A46 B313 1990
A story of the lives of an Egyptian family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation
by British forces in the early 1900's.
Mahfouz, Naguib
Respected Sir
PJ7846.A46 H2413 1990
The story of Othman Bayyumi -- an Egyptian man totally driven by his ambition.
Mahfouz, Naguib
The Search
PJ7846.A46 T313 1991
A dark tale of crime and passion in modern Egypt.
Mahfouz, Naguib
Sugar Street
PJ7846.A46 S913 1992
The story follows the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad into the middle
of the twentieth century as the seeds of contemporary Egypt are sown.
Mahfouz, Naguib
Wedding Song
PJ7846.A46 A6913 1989
A psychological study of the way four different people in Cairo, Egypt deal
very differently with the life issues surrounding them.
Saadawi, Nawal
Two women in one
PJ7862.A3 I4413 1986
The story of Bahiah Shaheen, a young medical student and daughter of a prominent
Egyptian official who yearns for freedom from her rigid surroundings.
Shaykh, Hanan
Women of Sand and Myrrh
PJ7862.H356 W66 1992
The story of four women, living in an unnamed Middle Eastern or North African
desert country, who are struggling to cope in a society where they are treated
to every luxury but freedom.
Soueif, Ahdaf
The Map of Love
PZ4.S6534 Ma 2000
The story of a love affair between an American journalist and an Egyptian-American
conductor set against the backdrop of the romance between her English and
Egyptian great-grandparents.
Alegria, Claribel
Ashes of Izalco
PQ7539.A47 C413 1989
A story about the repressive life in a small Salvadoran town in the 1980's.
Alegria, Claribel
Family Album
PQ7539.A47 P8413 1991
A fictional examination of the roles of religion, spirituality, and magic
in El Salvador.
Alegria, Claribel
Luisa in Realityland
PQ7539.A47 L8513 1988
Vignettes are presented which provide a melding of history and dreams --
showing the importance of mysticism in a political environment in which
brutal reality is pervasive.
And We Sold the Rain
PZ1.A53 Sa 1988
A collection of short stories from Latin America. Stories by the following
Salvadoran authors are included: Claribel Alegria, Jacinta Escudos, and
Alfonso Quijada Urias.
Argueta, Manilo
Cuzcatlan : Where the Southern Sea Beats
PZ4.A71 Cu 1987
The story covers the history of a family from 1936 to 1981 while dramatizing
the extreme poverty of the Salvadoran peasants and their perseverance in
the face of brutal military authority.
Argueta, Manilo
One Day of Life
PZ4.A71 On 1983
The novel explores one day of life for a typical peasant family caught up
in El Salvador's tension and turmoil.
Contemporary Short Stories From Central America
PQ7087.E5 C66 1994
A collection of short stories from Central America. Stories by the
following Salvadoran authors are included: Jose Roberto Cea, Alfonso Quijada
Urias, and Napolean Rodriguez Ruiz.
Limon, Graciela
In Search of Bernabe
PZ4.L732 In 1993
A family saga telling the story of Luz Delcano, who is determined to find
her son Bernabe from whom she was separated in the chaos that followed the
assassination of Archbishop Romero in 1980.
Alexis, Jacques Stephen
General Sun, My Brother
PQ3949.A34 C6613 1999
A novel about the exploitation of the poor in Haiti.
Clitandre, Pierre
Cathedral of the August Heat
PQ3949.2.C58 C313 1987
A lyrical tapestry of life among the poor in present-day Haiti.
Danticat, Edwidge
Breath, Eyes, Memory
PZ4.D225 Br 1998
A young girl come of age in Haiti -- a landscape charged with the supernatural
and scared by political violence.
Danticat, Edwidge
The Farming of Bones
PZ4.D225 Fa 1998
The story of the love and endurance of two young Haitians working in the
Dominican Republic in 1937.
Danticat, Edwidge
Krik? Krak!
PZ4.D225 Kr 1995
A collection of short stories about life in Haiti.
Depestre, Rene
The Festival of the Greasy Pole
PQ3949.D46 M313 1990
An ironic and thinly-veiled fictional portrait of life in Haiti under the
murderous Duvalier regime.
Desquiron, Lilas
Reflections of Loko Miwa
PQ3949.2.D445 C4813 1998
A novel about a group of rural women who are terrorized by the Tontons
Macoutes (secret police) during the Duvalier regime.
Laferriere, Dany
Dining With the Dictator
PQ3919.2.L162 G6813
In the early 1970's a shy adolescent boy is targeted for arrest by the secret
police after a misunderstanding.
Roumain, Jacques
Masters of the Dew
PQ3949.R37 G613
A story of a Haitian villager who tries to improve the living conditions
in his poverty-stricken village while at the same time preaching political
awareness and solidarity.
The Whistling Bird : Women Writers of the Caribbean
PN849.C32 W45 1998
Includes: "Night Women" by Edwidge Danticat
Collison, Kerry B.
The Fifth Season
PZ4.C688 Fi 1998
In an evolving militant Islamic climate, anti-Chinese sentiment drives the
country to the brink of collapse.
Diverse Lives : Contemporary Stories From Indonesia
PL5088.2.E5 D59 1995
This volume contains fifteen Indonesian short stories from different parts
of the country. The settings for the stories range from urban slums
to rural villages and explore a variety of characters and themes representative
of the diversity of Indonesia.
Haasse, Hella S.
Forever a Stranger and Other Stories
PT5838.H45 A23 1996
These stories are based on experiences and impressions from Haasse's childhood
and youth in Indonesia. "Forever a Stranger" tells the story of a friendship
between Dutch and Indonesian boys whose childhood bond is increasingly undermined
by racial and class differences and is ultimately destroyed by the Indonesian
revolution.
Koch, Christopher J.
The Year of Living Dangerously
PZ4.K795 Ye 1995
The year is 1965. The fiercely nationalistic government of god-king
Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the brink of chaos.
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
This Earth of Mankind
PL5089.T8 B8413 1996
Minke, a young Javanese student in the late 19th century, battles against
the confines of Dutch colonialism.
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
Child of All Nations
PL5089.T8 A2513 1996
The story follows the political awakening of Minke, a Dutch-educated Javanese
writer, who seeks to come to grips with the oppressive Dutch regime in his
country.
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
Footsteps
PL5089.T8 J4513 1996
This volume continues to follow the adventures of Minke, a Dutch-educated
journalist, as he settles in a new town and tries to leave behind the tragedies
of his past.
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
House of Glass
PL5089.T8 R8613 1997
This book follows the story of Minke through the turbulent period of the
early years of Indonesian nationhood.
ISRAELI FICTION
Almog, Ruth
Death in the Rain
PJ5054.A4972 M313 1993
The story of Elisheva, a sensitive Israeli writer and her tragic involvement
with an ambitious academic, a brilliant but unstable scientist, and a gifted
Greek poet.
Appelfeld, Aharon
The Age of Wonders
PJ5054.A755 T613 1981
A story of anti-Semitism in an Austrian town on the eve of World War II.
Appelfeld, Aharon
Badenheim 1939
PJ5054.A755 B3413 1980
A story by a Romanian-born Israeli Holocaust survivior about the middle
class Jews of Austria, who are so involved with pleasure that they
deny what is happening around them.
Appelfeld, Aharon
For Every Sin
PJ5054.A755 A7813 1990
A young Holocaust survivor struggles with his desire to return home to Europe
on foot.
Appelfeld, Aharon
The Immortal Bartfuss
PJ5054.A755 B3713 1987
Set in contemporary Israel, this is a profound and powerful portrait of
a Holocaust survivor.
Dayan, Yael
New Face in the Mirror
PZ4.D275 Ne
A story about an Israeli girl who resists the required military service.
Grossman, David
The Smile of the Lamb
PJ5054.G728 H513 1992
An Israeli soldier, whose closest companion and commander is a Holocaust
survivor, befriends an Arab storyteller.
Hellman, Aviva
To Touch a Dream
PJ5054.H45 T68 1989
The novel chronicles four generations of the Danziger family through two
world wars, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the birth of the state of
Israel.
Oz, Amos
Fima
PJ5054.O9 M3513 1993
Fima, a brilliant, published poet, now working as a receptionist at a gynecological
clinic, wanders though Jerusalem. His fantasies convey the confused
mixture of political and personal life in his homeland.
Oz, Amos
The Hill of Evil Counsel
PJ5054.O9 H313 1991
Set in Jerusalem at the end of British rule, a boy plays a role in three
stories amid the national crises taking place.
Oz, Amos
My Michael
PJ5054.O9 M513 1992
The story of a young Israeli woman's disintegrating marriage played out
against the background of the city of Jerusalem.
Oz, Amos
A Perfect Peace
PJ5054.O9 M413 1985
Set on a kibbutz in the mid-1960's, this is the story of the founders of
Israel and their children, of two generations caught in the crosscurrents
of history and modern life.
Oz, Amos
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind
PJ5054.O9 L313 1991
This is an intricate tale of people who are contantly seeking to escape
a hostile world.
Oz, Amos
Unto Death : Two Novellas
PJ5054.O9 A6613 1978
Two short novels: one about the brutality of the Crusades and one about
an aged lecturer in contemporary Israel.
Shaham, Nathan
Bone to the Bone
PJ5054.S3 E7713 1993
A Russian Jew, Avigdor Barkov, leaves his homeland for Israel in the
1920's. There he devotes himself to the political revolution in Palestine.
Yeshoshua, Abraham B.
The Lover
PJ5054.Y42 M413 1985
A husband's search for his wife's lover during the Yom Kippur War, linking
modern day Israel with the past.
PALESTINIAN FICTION
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature
PJ8190.55.E55 A58 1992
A collection of stories and other literary works by contemporary Palestinian
writers.
Habiby, Emile
The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
PJ7828.B53 W313 2002
This contemporary Palestinian classic is the story of a Palestinian living
in Israel that combines terror and heroism along with comedy and tragedy.
Shammas, Anton
Arabesques
PJ5054.S414 A8913 1988
Written by a Palestinian Israeli, this novel tells the story of village
life and politics in a Palestinian village in Israel.
KOSOVO (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO)
Cosic, Dobrica
This Land This Time
PG1419.C63 V7213 1983 v.1-4
This four volume set includes the following titles: Into the Battle,
A Time of Death, Reach to Eternity, and South to Destiny.
All four volumes cover the tragedy and drama of World War I in Serbia.
Gorup, Radmilla J. (Ed.)
The Prince of Fire : An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories
PG1595.E8 P75 1998
A collection of short stories by Serbian authors.
Johnson, Bernard
New Writing in Yugoslavia
PG584.E1 J6
A collection of short stories from the former Yugoslavia.
Kadare, Ismail
Doruntine
PG9621.K3 Q513 1988
In a medieval Albanian town, two women, mother and daugher, are on their
deathbeds. Three years have past since Doruntine married a foreigner
and went with him to far away Bohemia.
Kadare, Ismail
The Palace of Dreams
PG9621.K3 P313 1993
A bleak and unsettling novel by an Albanian author about the insidious nature
of totalitarianism in the Balkans.
Kis, Danilo
The Encyclopedia of the Dead
PG1419.21.I8 E513 1991
A collection of short stories by a Serbian writer about death, literature,
and love.
Kis, Danilo
Garden Ashes
PG1419.21.I8 G3 1975
The story of a boy growing up in the shadow of a brilliant and destructive
father in Yugoslavia during World War II.
Kis, Danilo
Hourglass
PG1419.21.I8 P413 1990
The life of an ordinary man is followed through the last months before he
is rounded up and sent to a concentration camp.
Pavic, Milorad
Landscape Painted With Tea
PG1419.26.A78 P713 1991
The novel explores the life of a failed architect in Belgrade and his search
for his father who vanished in Greece during World War II.
Azuela, Mariano
Two Novels of Mexico
PQ6602.Z3 C324 1956
This book includes two novels: The Flies and The Bosses.
The Flies provides a humorous portrait of the effects of the Mexican
Revolution on the cowards and shameless opportunists who sought to always
be a part of the winning side. The Bosses examines life in
a small city in western Mexico which is virtually run by a merchant-banker-landlord
family.
Campobello, Nellie
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands
PQ7297.C24448 C3713 1988
Both of these novellas are autobiographical evocations of the author's childhood
spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Mexican Revolution.
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water For Chocolate
PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 1992
A novel about a young woman who is not permitted by her mother to marry.
The story unfolds over thirty years reflected in a fantasy of recipes.
Fuentes, Carlos
Aura
PZ4.F952 An 1975
A story of horror and beauty about a young scholar, Felipe Montero, and
his passion for Aura, the niece of his employer.
Fuentes, Carlos
Burnt Water : Stories
PZ4.F952 Bu
These stories explore facets of everyday Mexican life.
Fuentes, Carlos
A Change of Skin
PZ4.F952 Ch
A novel that contrasts real consciousness of one's self with a man's idea
of what he ought to be.
Fuentes, Carlos
Christopher Unborn
PZ4.F952 Chr 1989
This novel provides a daring and imaginative portrait of the worst elements
of Mexico City -- acid rain, slums, gangs, and political corruption -- and
how they might influence life in the future.
Fuentes, Carlos
The Death of Artemio Cruz
PZ4.F952 De
Artemio Cruz is a man who rose through the Revolution and then betrayed
it. The novel explores his deathbed recollections of the years 1910
to 1959.
Fuentes, Carlos
The Old Gringo
PZ4.F952 Ol
The theme is the Mexican Revolution and the difficult relationship between
Mexico and the United States.
Fuentes, Carlos
Terra Nostra
PZ4.F952 Te
The early years of Spanish colonization of Mexico and the birth of Hispanic-American
culture come to life in this richly evocative novel.
Garro, Elena
Recollections of Things to Come
PQ7297.G3585 R413 1969
This novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the
grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against
a background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest.
Landscapes of a New Land
PZ1.L239 Ag 1989
This collection of short stories includes works by the following Mexican
authors: Margo Glantz, Elena Poniatowska.
Lopez y Fuentes, G.
El Indio
PQ6662.L66 I52 1961
This novel tells a tale of the impact of the Mexican Revolution on the Indian
culture of Mexico.
New Writing In Mexico
PQ7263.E5 N5 1992
This collection includes short stories by a variety of Mexican authors.
Rulfo, Juan
Pedro Paramo
PQ6633.U4 P427 1969
This novel contrasts mestizo village life with that of the Indians in the
surrounding hills implying that it is difficult for the two lifestyles to
blend together.
Short Stories by Latin American Women : The Magic and the Real
PZ1.S469 Co 1989
This collection includes short stories by the following Mexican authors:
Rosario Castellanos, Amparo Davila, Guadalupe Duenas, Elena Garro, and Elena
Poniatowska.
Toscana, David
Tula Station
PQ7298.3.O78 E7813 2000
The novel is three stories in one: the story of Juan Capistran, an orphan
destined to live a quixotic life in search of adventure and heroism; the
life of Froylan Gomez, a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy
of a woman; and the almost true story of the town of Tula, once prosperous
but in a mountain location impossible for a train to ever reach.
Yanez, Augustin
The Edge of the Storm
PZ4.Y35 Ed
A study of a town in Jalisco state on the verge of the Mexican Revolution.
The novel depicts the harm done to ordinary Mexicans by various forms of
authority, particularly the government and the Catholic Church.
And We Sold the Rain
PZ1.A53 Sa 1988
This collection of Latin American short stories includes stories by the
following Nicaraguan authors: Lyzandro Chavez Alfaro, Sergio Ramirez, and
Leonel Rugama.
Contemporary Short Stories From Central America
PQ7087.E5 C66 1994
This collection of Central American short stories includes stories by the
following Nicaraguan authors: Ruben Dario, Sergio Ramirez, and Mario Santos.
Ramirez, Sergio
To Bury Our Fathers
PQ7519.2.R25 T413 1993t
This novel is an epic story of resistance and retribution set during the
years of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.
Baker, Jeanette
Blood Roses
PZ4.B3443 Bl 2002
The story of one woman's search for truth in a divided Ireland.
Binchy, Maeve
Circle of Friends
PZ4.B582 Ci 1991
Beginning in an Irish village and moving to Dublin, this intimate portrait
of friendship captures the coming of age of two unusual young women.
Binchy, Maeve
Echoes
PZ4.B582 Ec 1989
Claire and David -- divided as children by a rigid social code that branded
her as shanty Irish and him as gentry -- are ready to defy the traditions
meant to keep them apart.
Binchy, Maeve
Light A Penny Candle
PZ4.B582 Li 1983
Elizabeth White is a shy ten-year-old when she is evacuated from wartime
London and plunged into a large and contentious Irish family in the village
of Kilgarret.
Binchy, Maeve
The Lilac Bus
PZ4.B582 Lib 1991
This is a collection of short stories set in Ireland.
Doyle, Roddy
Paddy Clarke : Ha Ha Ha
PZ4.D753 PA 1994
This is the story of a ten-year-old Irish Catholic boy in 1968 trying to
make sense of life.
Keane, John B.
The Bodhran Makers
PZ4.K245 Bo 1992
This is the story of a struggle between hard-living farmers determined to
maintain their traditions and the Catholic Church. The novel takes
place in rural Ireland in the 1950's.
Kiely, Benedict
Nothing Happens in Carmincross
PZ4.K478 No 1985
The story of an Irish-American who returns to his old hometown in Northern
Ireland to attend his niece's wedding.
Moore, Brian
Catholics
PZ4.M819 Cat3
A priest is sent to reform an out-of-touch priory creating conflict between
the past and the present.
Moore, Brian
The Doctor's Wife
PZ4.M819 Doc3
A doctor's wife in Belfast faces conflicts in her life and values.
Moore, Brian
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
PZ4.M819 Em
This is the story of a man's apprenticeship and coming-of-age in Belfast
during World War II.
Moore, Brian
The Great Victorian Collection
PZ4.M819 Gr3
This is a novel of World War II about a young Irish man who puts on a British
uniform against the wishes of his Catholic family.
Moore, Brian
Lies of Silence
PZ4.M819 Li 1991
A man's personal decisions are affected by IRA terrorism, and he faces devastating
options.
O'Brien, Edna
A Fanatic Heart : Selected Stories
PZ4.O129 Fa
These stories examine the details of everyday life and of relationships
between people.
O'Brien, Edna
Lantern Slides : Stories
PZ4.O129 La 1990
The twelve stories in this collection take place in Ireland, England, and
in various vacation locales. In these places, the characters come
face to face with their profoundest fears, desires, regrets, and joys.
O'Brien, Edna
The Love Object : Stories
PZ4.O129 Lp3
A collection of short stories concerning human nature.
O'Brien, Edna
Night
PZ4.O129 Ni 1987
Mary Hooligan recalls her past -- a childhood in the Irish countryside and
the love affairs she has had since arriving in England.
O'Faolain, Julia
No Country For Young Men
PZ4.O412 No 1987
This is a political thriller set in present day Ireland involving an American
targeted for elimination by terrorists, an unsolved 1922 murder, a mad nun,
and a passionate love affair.
O'Faolain, Julia
Women in the Wall
PZ4.O412 Wo 1988
This is an historical novel based on the life of a medieval Irish queen
which illustrates some of the dilemmas facing Irish women today. This
rich and vivid portrait of sixth century Ireland draws an imaginative parallel
between medieval times and contemporary society.
O'Faolain, Sean
Finest Stories
PZ3.O32 Fi 1957
This is a collection of stories reflecting a deep love for the Irish people. The stories are taken from thirty years of writing by one of Ireland's finest
storytellers.
O'Faolain, Sean
I Remember! I Remember!
PZ3.O32 I2
This is a collection of stories of life in Ireland.
O'Flaherty, Liam
Famine
PZ3.O33 Fam2
This historical novel examines the period of the Great Hunger in nineteenth
century Ireland.
Phelan, Tom
In the Season of the Daisies
PZ4.P531 In 1993
This novel tells the story of a surviving twin from a brutal civil war in
the Irish midlands. The setting is 1921, but the novel parallels today's
situation.
Trevor, William
Felicia's Journey
PZ4.T738 Fe 1995
Felicia, young and pregnant, leaves a small Irish town in search of her
boyfriend in the industrial sprawl of the English midlands.
Atwood, Margaret
Surfacing
PZ4.A889 Su 1987
The story of two couples who set off for a weekend trip to a country cabin
in the Quebec woods.
Beauchemin, Yves
Juliette
PQ3919.2.B364 J8513 1993
The story of Juliette Pomerleau -- a Montreal accountant facing a life-threatening
illness.
Blais, Marie-Claire
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
PQ3919.2.B53 S313 1992
The story of the sixteenth child of a farmer's family in rural Quebec.
Carrier, Roch
Floralie, Where Are You?
PQ3919.2.C25 F56
The story of a wedding in the Corriveau family who live in a small Quebec
village.
Carrier, Roch
Garden of Delights
PQ3919.2.C25 J37
A colorful tale of good and evil set in a Quebec village.
Carrier, Roch
La Guerre, Yes Sir!
PQ3919.2.C25 G84
A droll, crisply narrated portrait of Quebec village life.
Carrier, Roch
Is It the Sun, Philibert?
PQ3919.2.C25 I7
A young French-Canadian hitchhikes to Montreal to make his fortune and comes
face to face with the urban, industrial, depersonalized world of the city.
Carrier, Roch
Lady With Chains
PQ3919.2.C25 D313 1984
The story of a Quebecois woman who plots the murder of her husband after
the death of their child.
Dandurand, Anne
The Cracks
PQ3919.2.D247 C613 1992
The story of a young Montreal woman at odds with society and herself.
Hebert, Anne
Kamouraska
PQ3919.2.E42 K313 1992
A novel based on a true incident of forbidden love and murder that took
place in Quebec in 1840.
Major, Andre
The Winter of the Heart
PQ3919.2.M282 H5813 1989
The poignant story of a young man alone in Montreal.
Packer, Miriam
Take Me To Coney Island
PR9199.3.P276 T35 1993
The story of the many struggles of Hanna Davidson, the daughter of Jewish
immigrants living in a slum area on the east side of Montreal.
Ringuet
Thirty Acres
PR3919.P27 T71 1989
The story of one man's life is set against the tumultuous half century in
which a new, industrial urban society is crowding out Quebec's traditional
rural one.
Roy, Gabrielle
The Tin Flute
PQ3919.R74 B613 1989
The story of a family struggling to overcome poverty in the Saint-Henri
slums of Montreal during World War II.
Abrahams, Peter
Mine Boy
PZ3.A1576 Mi7
This is a novel of violence, death, and the appalling conditions in the
mines of South Africa set in the crucial years of the middle twentieth century
when apartheid was becoming entrenched in the South African legal system.
Brink, Andre
A Dry White Season
PR9369.B7 D7 1984
This is the story of a white South African teacher investigating the death
of a friend which occurred while the latter was in police custody.
Coetzee, J. M.
Waiting for the Barbarians
PZ4.C6736 W3 1982
A magistrate in the outer territories comes to identify with the tortured
victims of the government he serves.
Coetzee, J. M.
Foe
PZ4.C6736 Fo 1987
An allegorical fable about a woman marooned on an island in the Atlantic
Ocean.
Coetzee, J. M.
From the Heart of the Country
PZ4.C6736 Fr 1977
A tale of obsession and revenge set in rural South Africa.
Coetzee, J. M.
Life & Times of Michael K
PZ4.C6736 Li 1984
The story of a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa.
Gordimer, Nadine
Burger's Daughter
PZ4.G652 Bu 1989
This is the story of a daughter of a martyr to the anti-apartheid cause
who can't be so dedicated herself.
Gordimer, Nadine
The Conservationist
PZ4.G652 Co 1968
This novel provides a convincing portrait of an Afrikaner industrialist
-- a man at once ambitious, cynical, sensual, and sharply observant.
Gordimer, Nadine
A Guest of Honour
PZ4.G652 Gu 1973
James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central
African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited
back ten years later to join the country's independence movement.
Gordimer, Nadine
The House Gun
PZ4.G652 Ho 1998
A complex narrative of human relationships and violent behavior.
Gordimer, Nadine
July's People
PZ4.G652 Ju 1982
A household servant rescues the white family he works for when the city
becomes a battleground.
Gordimer, Nadine
Jump and Other Stories
PZ4.G652 Jum 1991
This collection of stories is set in South Africa, Mozambique, and England.
Gordimer, Nadine
The Late Bourgeois World
PZ4.G652 La 1966
This is a story of a turbulent time -- of South Africa in transition --
and of one man's disgrace.
Gordimer, Nadine
My Son's Story
PZ4.G652 My 1990
This is the story of the adolescent son of a teacher of mixed race who works
for the "real blacks" but falls in love with a blond, blue-eyed woman.
Gordimer, Nadine
Occasion for Loving
PZ4.G652 Oc 1994
This is the story of an interracial relationship in repressive South Africa.
Gordimer, Nadine
Six Feet of the Country
PZ4.G652 Si 1986
This collection of seven stories distills the essence of what has been happening
in South Africa in recent years.
Gordimer, Nadine
Something Out There
PZ4.G652 So 1985
This is a collection of short stories dealing with the personal and political
aspects of the divided society in South Africa.
Gordimer, Nadine
A Sport of Nature
PZ4.G652 Sp 1988
A white woman falls in love with a black revolutionary who becomes the first
black president of South Africa.
Gordimer, Nadine
A World of Strangers
PZ4.G652 Wo 1962
This is the story of friendship between an embittered young African and
a young Englishman set in Johannesburg.
Head, Bessie
A Question of Power
PR9369.3.H4 Q84
This novel follows the story of a woman living in a Botswanan village who
must confront the edges of sanity.
Head, Bessie
When Rain Clouds Gather
PR9408.B553 H4 1987
This novel provides a vivid account of village life in Botswana while exploring
the relationship between an Englishman and an embittered black South African
who try to change the traditional farming methods of the community.
A refugee from South Africa's apartheid system also faces discrimination
from other blacks.
Hope, Christopher
A Separate Development
PZ4.H783 Se4 1981
A white Catholic teenager realizes that he is dark enough to be considered
"coloured" under South Africa's rigid system of racial classification.
LaGuma, Alex
In the Fog of the Season's End
PZ4.L178 In
This novel provides a grim portrait of black life under the apartheid system
of South Africa.
LaGuma, Alex
A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
PZ4.L178 Wal4
This is a collection of short stories about life in South Africa.
A Land Apart : A Contemporary South African Reader
PR9364.9 .L36 1987
This is a collection of short stories by modern South African authors.
Matthee, Dalene
Fiela's Child
PZ4.M3775 Fi 1986
The story of two families struggling for possession of one child in 19th
century South Africa.
Millin, Sarah Gertrude
God's Stepchildren
PZ3.M6224 Go2
This is the story of several generations of a mixed race family in nineteenth
century South Africa.
Payton, Alan
Cry the Beloved Country
PZ3.P2738 Cr
The protagonist is a Zulu parson, and the novels traces his journey into
Johannesburg's underworld in search of his son.
Payton, Alan
Too Late the Phalarope
PZ3.O2738 To
The protagonist is an Afrikaner policeman, and the novel conveys the full
tragedy of the Immorality Act -- the law forbidding sex between races.
Serote, Mongane
To Every Birth Its Blood
PR9369.3.S45 T6 1989
This novel provides a poignant indictment of South Africa's treatment and
exploitation of its black majority.
Tlali, Miriam
Muriel at Metropolitan
PR9369.3.T6 M87 1987
This is the story of the daily life of a black typist in a furniture and
electronics store for poor whites and blacks. The novel contains gentle
humor and provides detail about life on the fringes of white South African
society.