Soul Tourists
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo’s earlier works are also worth checking out.
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Archipelago
German Book Prize-winning author Inger-Maria Mahlke’s Archipel is a multi-generational epic set on Tenerife.
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The Black Madonna
A relaxing mother-daughter holiday in Bavaria suddenly turns into an exciting investigation of criminal activity and a humorous critical commentary on so-called German values.
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Racism: A Beginner’s Guide
Alana Lentin, maybe one of the most lucid race scholars around at the moment, demystifies central questions surrounding race and racism.
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These Bones Will Rise Again
Panashe Chigumadzi’s non-fictional These Bones Will Rise Again is a thought-provoking reflection on the intertwined histories of Zimbabwe, and how they have been told.
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Binti
Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti is a showcase of what happens when science fiction meets postcolonial concerns.
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She will build him a City
Raj Kamal Jha’s ‘She will build him a City’ narrates complex stories of common people and manages to create a sense of completion through fragmentation.
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Gastfreundschaft (Hospitality)
Berlin-based writer Priya Basil’s latest book is about the joys of eating and the politics of hospitality.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea is not an ordinary novel – above all, it is a haunting of another story. Published first in 1966, it imagines the beginning of Mr. Rochester’s first marriage to Bertha Mason, here called Antoinette Cosway. Ultimately, it is a postcolonial Gothic tale concerned with the dark underside of its popular source text, […]
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Alle, außer mir
Alle, außer mir ist eine Vater-Tochter Geschichte. Eine Geschichte über familiäre Verwicklungen mit dem italienischen Kolonialismus und Faschismus. Eine Geschichte von nationalem Vergessen.
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