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In the United States of Africa

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
134 Seiten
Englisch
Nebraskaerschienen am30.03.2009
In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextIn a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-8032-2262-5
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2009
Erscheinungsdatum30.03.2009
Seiten134 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 141 mm, Höhe 218 mm, Dicke 14 mm
Gewicht162 g
Artikel-Nr.36889446
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch
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Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
ForewordPart 1. A Voyage to Asmara, the Federal CapitalPart 2. A Voyage to the Heart of the StudioPart 3. A Voyage to Paris, FrancePart 4. Return to Asmaramehr

Autor

Abdourahman A. Waberi was born in Djibouti in 1965 and has lived in France since 1985. He has published numerous books, articles, and stories. His first collection of short stories, Le Pays Sans Ombre (published in English as The Land without Shadows) won Belgium's Royal Academy of French Language and Literature Grand Prix. J. M. G. Le Clézio recognized and paid tribute to Waberi in his 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture. David and Nicole Ball, both independent translators in Northampton, Massachusetts, have published several translations separately, as well as together, including Lascaux: A Work of Memory. David Ball won the Modern Language Association's prize for literary translation in 1996. Percival Everett, professor of creative writing at the University of California-Riverside, is the author of many novels, including, most recently, The Water Cure.