Emma Ramadan
1) Not one day
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Winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize
Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards
Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize
Available in a new edition, Anne Garréta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.
Not One Day begins with a maxim: "Not one day without a woman." What follows is an intimate, erotic, and sometimes bitter recounting of loves and lovers past, breathtakingly written, exploring the interplay between memory, fantasy,...
2) Sphinx
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English
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"A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story."--From publisher.
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HarperVia
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English
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In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and wed to a manipulative older man. Safira, her co-wife, juggles envy and empathy for this new bride with disappointment in the husband she desperately loves. Like her sister Ramla, Hindou is married off to a man she does not know or want, a distant cousin whose instability and violence terrifies her. Three women, raised to submit to men, or risk shame and repudiation. They are...