""Frontcover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Narrating Values: Describing a World""; ""2 Shaaban Robert: The Optimism of Writing""; ""3 The Crisis of the Bildungsroman""; ""4 Euphrase Kezilahabi: An Initiatory Realism""; ""5 The Political Novel""; ""6 Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed: Narrating a Dual Reality""; ""7 Criminals & the Corrupted""; ""8 Investigations & Enigmas""; ""9 Said Ahmed Mohamed: The Dark Side of Images""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Backcover""