Weiße Wolken By Yandé Seck
Publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Date: February 8, 2024
Genre: Fiction
Language: German
Where to find it: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Yandé Seck
Yandé Seck was born in Heidelberg in 1986 and grew up there and in Frankfurt am Main, where she now lives with her husband and two children. She works as a psychotherapist for children and young people, also teaches at the University of Frankfurt and is doing her doctorate on motherhood, migration and psychoanalysis. “Weiße Wolken” is her first novel.
Weiße Wolken (English: White Clouds)
Two sisters: one works on all the wrongs of our present, the other on the civic family ideal; for one, her blackness is a political category, for the other, her motherhood. Smart, enlightening and with an underlying joke, Yandé Seck tells in her debut novel about the ambivalences that we have to endure, both small and large. Dieo lives with her husband Simon and three sons in a beautiful old building apartment in Frankfurt Nordend. She suffers from society’s unfulfilled claims to her as a mother, but above all it is her younger sister Zazie’s constant criticism of everything and everyone that gets on her nerves. Simon, a middle-aged white man and employee at a financial start-up, also keeps targeting his sister-in-law, who is increasingly desperate for racist and sexist society. When the father of the sisters, an eccentric Nietzschefan who came to Germany from Senegal more than forty years ago, dies unexpectedly, the painfully calibrated family addition loses balance. The sisters travel to their father’s country for the funeral. The farewell becomes a new beginning for the two – in many ways.
The City is Mine by Niq Mhlongo
Publisher: Kwela
Date: May 9, 2024
Genre: Fiction
Language: English
Where to find it: NB Publishers
Niq Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo is an award winning South African journalist, editor, writer and educator. He is the author of the novels Dog Eat Dog (Kwela, 2004) After Tears (Kwela, 2007) Way Back Home (2013), Paradise in Gaza (2020) and the short story collections Affluenza (2016), Soweto, Under The Apricot Tree (2018), and For You, I’d Steal a Goat (2022). He is the editor of the anthologies Black Tax (2019), Joburg Noir (2020), and Hauntings (2021).
The City is Mine
Mangi and his fiancée, Aza, have been living together in Linden for the past eight years. One day while cleaning their bedroom, Mangi discovers Aza’s secret. The uncovering of Aza’s lie is the catalyst to the unravelling of their already tumultuous relationship. When Aza eventually ends their relationship, Mangi is left destitute. Mangi searches for meaning as he makes his way through the streets of Joburg in The City Is Mine.
Névoa na Sala by Mélio Tinga
Publisher: Catalogus
Date: May 15, 2024
Genre: Fiction
Language: Portuguese
Where to find it: Catalogus
Mélio Tinga
Melio Tinga is the Mozambican writer of O Voo dos Fantasmas (Ethale Publishing, 2018). He has contributed to several publications including The Hamburger that Killed Jorge – Anthology (Ethale Publishing, 2017) and Contos e crónicas para ler em casa – Volume I and II (Literatas, 2020). The Mozambican’s newest title written in Portuguese is A Engenharia Da Morte (English: The Engineering of Death) launched on July 15 online.
Névoa na Sala
A man accidentally ends up in the trenches of a war in the north of the country. A dead man makes him return. His father waits for him at the door. The ghosts of war haunt him, deep inside him. He therefore spends part of his life in a hospital specializing in trauma and depression, where he falls in love with a woman who seeks to cure the pain of trying to conceive, a talented poet who hides a mystery under the bed. He will have to find out, but also learn to deal with the split of a deep love.
Névoa na Sala is an experimental novel that goes against the tide and gravitates between the traumas of war, the strength of love and depression; It questions what a dead person can do when they return, revisits memories and seeks to discover what is powerful can inhabit the heart of Man.
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Publisher: Forever
Date: March 5, 2024
Genre: Fiction, Romance
Language: English
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Kennedy Ryan
USA Today bestselling author and Audie® Award-winner Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Kennedy and her writings have been featured in NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Glamour, Cosmo, Ebony, TIME, and many others. The co-founder of LIFT 4 Autism, an annual charitable book auction, she has a passion for raising Autism awareness. She is a wife to her “lifetime lover” and mother to an extraordinary son.
This Could Be Us
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.
But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She’s too busy keeping a roof over her daughters’ heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise.
But then an unlikely man enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn’t want but can’t seem to resist. She’s lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself?
After all she’s lost . . .and found . . .can she be brave enough to make room for what could be?
