We have the full spoilers for October 2022 Boxwalla Book Box, a fiction book subscription that also focuses on diversity! For the October 2022 box, Boxwalla Book Box subscribers will have the option to pick one of their book choices, and Boxwalla will another for you!
HOW TO PICK YOUR BOOK CHOICE: If you already have a current book subscription, you can log into your account and choose your book from the ‘My Subscriptions’ page (Manage Subscriptions ->My Subscriptions). You will find a ‘Switch Type’ link with a drop-down, next to your Book Subscription, and you can pick your Book Choice there.
Here’s a sneak peek for the “Fixed” Book Choice:
Doomi Golo―The Hidden Notebooks (African Humanities and the Arts) by Boubacar Boris Diop
The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to communicate with his grandson before he dies. With a narrative structure that beautifully imitates the movements of a musical piece, Diop relates Faye’s trauma of losing his only son, Assane Tall, which is compounded by his grandson Badou’s migration to an unknown destination. While Faye feels certain that his grandson will return one day, he also is convinced that he will no longer be alive by then. Faye spends his days sitting under a mango tree in the courtyard of his home, reminiscing and observing his surroundings. He speaks to Badou through his seven notebooks, six of which are revealed to the reader, while the seventh, the “Book of Secrets,” is highly confidential and reserved for Badou’s eyes only. In the absence of letters from Badou, the notebooks form the only possible means of communication between the two, carrying within them tunes and repetitions that give this novel its unusual shape: loose and meandering on the one hand, coherent and tightly interwoven on the other. Translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop.
Here’s the rest of the books:
- South African writer Zoë Wicomb’s beautiful October
- Palestinian writer Sahar Khalifeh’s moving My First and Only Love
- Romanian writer Mircea Cartarescu’s wonderful Nostalgia
Boxwalla offers subscription boxes and limited edition boxes. Boxwalla Book Box is $29.95 every other month, and comes with 2 books by writers from all over the world. See all our Boxwalla Book Box reviews here!
April box orders are now open – you can secure yours here!
What do you think of this month’s Boxwalla Book Box spoilers?
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