Five of the best postcolonial novels
Briefly

Literature is not a luxury for us. It is a life and death affair because we are fashioning a new man.
The first and most famous novel by Barbadian novelist and essayist George Lamming explores labor unrest in 1930s Barbados amid colonial rule.
Hammad's debut novel, The Parisian, follows the journey of Midhat, reflecting on the fall of the Ottoman empire and the Arab uprising.
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