When Rain Clouds Gather
1968 · 186 pages
Makhaya crosses out of apartheid South Africa into a Botswana village and joins a cooperative, working against drought and a chief who needs the poor to stay poor. Head was a refugee herself.
★ 5.5
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The Foundation Pit
1930 · 224 pages
Workers dig a foundation for the building that will house the whole proletariat, and the pit keeps widening. Platonov's Russian buckles under its own slogans, and the Soviets suppressed the book until 1987.
★ 6.6
Utopia
1516 · 135 pages
On More's island nobody owns anything, everyone works six hours a day, and gold goes into chamber pots. More invented the word utopia for it and the literature of the ideal society followed.
★ 7.3