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Notable: Books from those countries

 
Published Jan. 17, 2018

Notable

Books from
those countries

Here are books by immigrants from some of the countries recently disparaged by the president.

Americanah (Anchor) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a brilliant novel set in this country and in the author's native Nigeria, won the National Book Critics Circle fiction award in 2013.

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Spiegel & Grau) by Trevor Noah is an often funny, sometimes harrowing, bestselling memoir by the host of The Daily Show.

Claire of the Sea Light (Vintage Contemporaries) by Edwidge Danticat is the award-winning Haitian author's lyrical, heartbreaking novel about family and community in a small village in Haiti.

Colette Bancroft, Times book editor