{"id":47490,"date":"2022-08-15T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/15\/most-exciting-new-fiction-from-africa-latin-america-and-south-asia"},"modified":"2022-08-15T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T06:00:31","slug":"page-turners-the-most-exciting-new-fiction-from-africa-latin-america-and-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47490","title":{"rendered":"Page turners: the most exciting new fiction from Africa, Latin America and south Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We asked 14 writers, editors and publishers to tell us their current favourites from around the world<\/p>\n<p>My holiday reading begins with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/naminaforna.com\/the-merciless-ones\">The Merciless Ones<\/a><\/strong>, the second young adult novel by Namina Forna. It\u2019s the middle volume in a speculative fiction trilogy that follows the journey of an army of near-immortal young women battling ancient gods. Forna is writing in a burgeoning genre of African sci-fi that draws on the cosmologies and storytelling traditions of African cultures and religions. One of the most exciting debut writers I\u2019ve come across recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/epwa66?lang=en-GB\">Ellah Wakatama <\/a>is chair of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/\"> AKO Caine prize for African writing<\/a> and editor-at-large at Canongate<\/p>\n<p>Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/aug\/04\/the-sex-lives-of-african-women-by-nana-darkoa-sekyiamah-review-extraordinarily-dynamic\">The Sex Lives of African Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/15\/most-exciting-new-fiction-from-africa-latin-america-and-south-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked 14 writers, editors and publishers to tell us their current favourites from around the worldMy holiday reading begins with The Merciless Ones, the second young adult novel by Namina Forna. It\u2019s the middle volume in a speculative fiction trilog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,246,511,71,59,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-books","category-culture","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47490\/revisions\/47491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}