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Item Details
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IN THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA
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| By: |
Abdourahman A. Waberi, David Ball (Trans), Nicole Ball (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£15.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803222629 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803222625 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2009 |
| Series: |
French Voices |
| Pages: |
134 |
| Synopsis: |
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. It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. Now a young artist, this girl, Malaika, travels to the troubled land of her birth in hope of finding her mother-and perhaps something of her lost self. Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant, reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth. |
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US |
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University of Nebraska Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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