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Zeno’s (established 1983) is an online used and out-of-print bookstore specializing in the categories of: literature in translation, modern first editions, and hard-to-find books. We started as a mail order business. In 1992 we moved into a storefront, and then to a bigger location a couple of years later. Eventually we closed the physical store to go online as zenosbooks.com. We have been selling our own hand-picked eclectic selection of used, hard-to-find, and even rare books via the internet ever since. We also offer a selection of over 60,000 new book titles. If you want to order a book that you don’t see on our site, let us know what it is. If it is in print we can probably get it for you. Write a review on our site (www.zenosbooks.com) of your favorite book and receive a 10% discount coupon. If you don't find your favorite book on our site, let us know about it and maybe we can add it.
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Dreams In A Time Of War: A Childhood Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. New York. 2010. Pantheon. 261 pages. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund. 9780307378835.
FROM THE PUBLISHER - By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of WIZARD OF THE CROW, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa's leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affected the lives of Africans under British colonial rule in particularly unexpected ways, Ngugi spent his childhood as very much the apple of his mother's eye before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning. IN DREAMS IN A TIME OF WAR, Ngugi deftly etches a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people, and their culture, the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war; and the troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middle class and the rural poor. And he shows how the Mau Mau armed struggle for Kenya's independence against the British informed not only his own life but also the lives of those closest to him. DREAMS IN A TIME OF WAR speaks to the human right to dream even in the worst of times. It abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
NGUGI WA THIONG’O is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. His books include WIZARD OF THE CROW, PETALS OF BLOOD, DEVIL ON THE CROSS, and DECOLONISING THE MIND.
The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe. New York. 2009. Knopf. 192 pages. October 2009. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. 9780307272553.
 FROM THE PUBLISHER -From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays-his first new book in more than twenty years. Chinua Achebe's characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses his historic visit to his Nigerian homeland on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Things Fall Apart, the story of his tragic car accident nearly twenty years ago, and the potent symbolism of President Obama's election. In 'The Education of a British-Protected Child,' Achebe gives us a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground,' recalling both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of colonial rule. In 'Spelling Our Proper Name,' Achebe considers the African-American diaspora, meeting and reading Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, and learning what it means not to know 'from whence he came.' The complex politics and history of Africa figure in 'What Is Nigeria to Me?,' 'Africa's Tarnished Name,' and 'Politics and Politicians of Language in African Literature.' And Achebe's extraordinary family life comes into view in 'My Dad and Me' and 'My Daughters,' where we observe the effect of Christian missionaries on his father and witness the culture shock of raising 'brown' children in America. Charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and steadfastly wise,The Education of a British-Protected Child is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
Hypothermia: An Icelandic Thriller by Arnaldur Indridason. New York. 2010. Minotaur/St. Martin’s. 314 pages. September 2010. Jacket design by Ervin Serrano based on a series design by Henry Sene Yee. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 9780312569914.
FROM THE PUBLISHER - Arnaldur Indridason has already established himself as one of the most accomplished of the Nordic crime writers, and he’s in top form in HYPOTHERMIA. Inspector Erlunder has spent his entire career struggling to evade the ghosts of his past. But ghosts are visiting him, both in the form of a séance attended by a dead woman and also in the reemerging puzzle of two young people who went missing 30 years ago. And there’s the ghost of the detective’s disastrous marriage, which, despite the pleas of his drug-addled daughter, he is unwilling to confront. In addition, he’s still obsessed with the disappearance of his brother, who vanished without a trace when they were boys. He can only run from his ghosts for so long, and, when they finally catch up with him, Erlunder is forced to face the heart shattering truth of his past. One of the most haunting crime novels readers are likely to encounter this year or any other, this is classic story that belongs on the shelf of every serious reader of suspense fiction. HYPOTHERMIA will chill you to the bone.
Arnaldur Indridason was born in 1961. He worked at an Icelandic newspaper, first as a journalist and then for many years as a film reviewer. He won the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel for both JAR CITY and SILENCE OF THE GRAVE, and in 2005 SILENCE OF THE GRAVE also won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of the year. (The film of JAR CITY, now available on DVD, was Iceland’s entry for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.) Indridason lives in Iceland, and his next novel in the series is forthcoming soon from Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur.
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