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KAFKA ON THE SHORE book by Author: Haruki Murakami
KShs1,595.00Add to cartKafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata
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The HANDMAID’S TALE book by Author:Margaret Atwood
KShs1,390.00Read moreThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred’s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
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EXILE AND THE KINGDOM book by author: Albert Camus
KShs1,595.00Add to cartThese short works of fiction cover the whole variety of existentialism, or absurdism, as Camus himself insisted his philosophical ideas be called. The clearest manifestation of his ideals can be found in “La Pierre qui pousse”.
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CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD book by Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
KShs1,595.00Add to cartChronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ‘On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.’ Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers.
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THE DELEGATE’S FRIEND book by Edward Mwangi
KShs1,150.00Add to cartFranciscar’s desire of establishing the deep secrets tormenting her single mother are crashed when Franciscar and her younger sister faces the most horrendous thing in life. Grace falls into depression when she comes to terms with what has happened to her two lovely girls.
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How to Kill Men and Get Away With It: about friendship, love and murder book by Katy Brent
KShs1,595.00Read moreMeet Kitty Collins.
FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER.He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone.I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t displeased when I did and, despite the mess I made, I appeared to get away with it.
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Terrorists of the Aberdare book by Ng’ang’a Mbugua
KShs690.00Add to cartSONKO WAKADOSI is a man chasing a dream but fate has not been too kind to him and conspires with forces beyond his control to keep him and his lover apart in this tragi-comic story of pathos; of hope amid despair and extra-ordinary courage in the face of great odds in a land where man and beast are locked in a constant struggle.
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Things They Lost: A Novel Hardcover book by Okwiri Oduor
KShs2,590.00Add to cartSet at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one, Things They Lost sets out a rich and magical vision of “girlhood as a time of complexity, laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion” (Vogue). Heartbreaking, elegant, and written in “giddily exuberant prose” (Financial Times), it’s a story about connection, coming-of-age, and the dizzying dualities of love at its most intoxicating and all-encompassing.
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Tomorrow I Become a Woman Hardcover book by Aiwanose Odafen
KShs1,990.00Read moreWhen Gozie and Obianuju meet in August 1978, it is nothing short of fate. He is the perfect man: charismatic, handsome, Christian, and – most importantly – Igbo. He reminds her of her beloved Uncle Ikenna, her mother’s brother who disappeared fighting in the Civil War that devastated Nigeria less than a decade before. It is why, when Gozie asks her to marry him within months of meeting, she says yes, despite her lingering and uncertain feelings for Akin – a man her mother would never accept, as his tribe fought on the other side of the war. Akin makes her feel heard, understood, intelligent; Gozie makes her heart flutter.
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? Book by Leo Tolstoy
KShs990.00Add to cartHow Much Land Does a Man Need? Book by Leo Tolstoy
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom.
Although he feared death, he could not stop. ‘If I stopped now, after coming all this way – well, they’d call me an idiot!’
A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia’s most influential writers and thinkers.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida book by Shehan Karunatilaka
KShs2,490.00Add to cartColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest.
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A Wrinkle in Time Book by Madeleine L’Engle
KShs1,595.00Read moreWhen the children learn that Mr. Murry has been captured by the Dark Thing, they time travel to Camazotz, where they must face the leader IT in the ultimate battle between good and evil—a journey that threatens their lives and our universe.
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Welcome to Lagos book by Chibundu Onuzo
KShs1,595.00Add to cartThey are unlikely allies — a private, a housewife, an officer, a militant and a young girl. They share a need for escape and a dream for the future. Soon, they will also share a burden none of them expected, but for now, the five sit quietly with their hopes, as the billboards fly past and shout: