We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Lesley-Ann Brown, Nelson Lineu, Wole Talabi, and Remy Ngamije.
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology edited by Wole Talabi
Publisher: Android Press
Date: November 21, 2023
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Language: English
Where to find it: Amazon
Wole Talabi
Wole Talabi is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria whose stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Lightspeed, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Clarkesworld, among others. He has edited three anthologies and has been a finalist for several awards including the Caine Prize, the Locus Award, and the Nommo Award. His work has also been translated into Spanish, Norwegian, Chinese, Italian, Bengali, and French. Incomplete Solutions (2019), is published by Luna Press and his debut novel Shigidi, was published by DAW Books (2023). Wole is represented by Bieke Van Aggelen of the African Literary Agency.
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology is the first anthology of stories set in a fictional shared world based on a blend of African cultural worldviews. Edited by Locus award-nominated editor Wole Talabi with contributions from around the African continent and diaspora, Sauúti is filled with wonder, mystery, and magic.
African-based intergalactic worldbuilding | Space travel |Humanoid and non-humanoid creatures | Artificial intelligence | Intricate magic system based on sound, oral traditions, and music
Contributors: Fabrice Guerrier, Stephen Embleton & Wole Talabi, Dare Segun Falowo, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Tobias S. Buckell, Adelehin Ijasan, Somto Ihezue and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, T.L. Huchu, Eye Kay Nwaogu, J. Umeh, Xan van Rooyen, Akintoba Kalejaye
Sopro by Nelson Lineu
Publisher:
Date: November 29, 2023
Genre: Fiction, Short Stories
Language: Portuguese
Where to find it: To be confirmed.
Nelson Lineu
Nelson Lineu who has a Degree in Philosophy from Eduardo Mondlane University teaches at the National School of Visual Arts. He is a Full Member and Governing Board of the Association of Mozambican Writers, and a Founding Member of the Kuphaluxa Literary Movement, where he was Secretary General and Director General of Literatas Magazine.
Sopro
In which fiction seeks support from reality to convince the reader and facts appeal verisimilitude to fiction in a complicity that becomes the aesthetic value of the work, as the Professor of Literature and Literary Critic Albino Macuácua attests: The “prosaic condition” of the characters present in Texts are formed from common episodes and situations in our daily lives, which mix with the mystical universe, but with the particularity of having surprising and unimaginable ends.
Blackgirl on Mars By Lesley-Ann Brown
Publisher: Repeater, Penguin Random House
Date: February 14, 2023
Genre: Biography
Language: English
Where to find it: Penguin Random House.
Lesley-Ann Brown
Lesley-Ann Brown is a Caribbean-American writer who is originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of Decolonial Daughter- Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son. She currently resides in her own body.
Blackgirl on Mars
Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown’s two years’ worth of travel searching for “home”. As she travels across the US during the Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19 pandemic and then to Trinidad and Tobago to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Brown tells her own life-story, as well as writing about race, gender, sexuality, and education, and ideas of home, family and healing. Both a radical political manifesto and a moving memoir about finding your place in the world, Blackgirl on Mars is about what it means to be a Black and Indigenous woman in Europe and the Americas in the twenty-first century.
Now Now: The 2023 Doek Anthology edited by Remy Ngamije
Publisher: Doek
Date: November 2023
Genre: Anthology
Language: English
Where to find it: Doek
Remy Ngamije
Rémy Ngamije is a Rwandan-born Namibian writer and photographer. He is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of Doek! Literary Magazine, Namibia’s first literary magazine. His work has appeared in Litro Magazine, AFREADA, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Brainwavez, The Amistad, The Kalahari Review, American Chordata, Azure, Sultan’s Seal, Santa Ana River Review, Columbia Journal, New Contrast, Necessary Fiction, Silver Pinion, and Lolwe. He was shortlisted for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing in 2020 and 2021. He was also longlisted for the 2020 Afritondo Short Story Prize. In 2019, he was shortlisted for Best Original Fiction by Stack Magazines. His debut novel is The Eternal Audience of One.
Now Now: The 2023 Doek Anthology
In this bold collection of short stories four siblings spend a nostalgia-filled and truth-revealing night in their grandparents’ house before it sold; a couple considers the bloom and doom of their relationship in the Namib Desert; a young mother struggles to breastfeed her newborn infant while confronting uncomfortable truths about her marriage; a post-apocalyptic Windhoek reveals intimate ways of surviving; rain in Northern Namibia brings much needed water and dreaded terror to the land; the life cycle of a frog traces a story of attraction and love; a man reflects on a life lived and potentially lost after a violent encounter; a bar filled with boredom becomes the backdrop for a rumination on time’s passage; fire and anxiety burn without pause—and with great humour—in Cape Town; three portraits of war provide glimpses into the lives lived through and around conflict; two young boys discover the meaning of friendship in a small town; and a protest ushers in new and uncomfortable truths for Namibia’s young and restless generation.
Contributors: Roxane Bayer (Namibia), Charmaine //Gamxamus (Namibia), Mubanga Kalimamukwento (Zambia), Ange Mucyo (Namibia), Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo (Namibia), Zanta Nkumane (Eswatini), Katherine Hunter (Namibia), Kay-Leigh De Sousa (Namibia), Jason De Klerk (South Africa), Bongani Kona (Zimbabwe), Darlene Kooper (Namibia), and Filemon Iiyambo (Namibia)
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