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Augustine the African

By Catherine Conybeare
Hardcover
$31.99
By Catherine Conybeare
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A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR

Longlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize


An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers: "Excellent, short, and highly readable.... Traces a grittier story of a life lived almost entirely in a small area of what is now eastern Algeria, where Augustine's local origins and experience profoundly shaped both his life and his thought. Conybeare's argument is that because of his contributions to th...

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