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Chinua Achebe and Doris Lessing

4 Extra Debut. Host Edward Blishen and his guests Doris Lessing and Chinua Achebe discuss books by Tsitsi Dangarembga, RK Narayan and Nawal El Sadawi. From July 1993.

Edward Blishen and his guests, novelists Doris Lessing and Chinua Achebe discuss books by Tsitsi Dangarembga, RK Narayan and Nawal El Sadawi. From 1993.

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Publisher: The Women's Press

The Talkative Man by RK Narayan
Publisher: Penguin

God Dies on the Nile by Nawal El Sadawi
Publisher: Zed Books.

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