The Reader, by Ali Smith

Leaving Tabasco, By Carmen Boullosa

This lovely coming-of-age novel is full of humour and touched by magic. Raised by her mother and grandmother, in an all female home, Delmira Ulloa comes into adulthood with a wicked sense of humour and a delightful imagination. As Delmira becomes a woman she will search for the missing stranger who fathered her, and in choosing her own allegiances make a choice that will force her to leave home forever. A penetrating sense of humanity infuses the prose and poetry of Carmen Boullosa. This is a book that is as effortlessly accessible as it is profound.

All that Blue, by Gaston-Paul Effa.

At the age of five, Douo, a Cameroonian boy, is given in (traditional) sacrifice to the local French church by his father. Deprived of contact with his family, he is ensconced in a convent for the rest of his childhood. Aged 15, he is sent to become a monk in a monastery in Paris. As an adult, he looks back at the nine years he spent in the convent school and the pain that has compelled him to seek his absent father through the teaching of priests and his mother's love in the arms of every woman he seduces. 

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