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In the United States of Africa
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In the United States of Africa Tapa dura - 2009

de Abdourahman A. Waberi; David Ball (Translator); Nicole Ball (Translator)

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  • Título In the United States of Africa
  • Autor Abdourahman A. Waberi; David Ball (Translator); Nicole Ball (Translator)
  • Encuadernación Tapa dura
  • Edición Ex-library
  • Páginas 134
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
  • Fecha de publicación 2009-03
  • Ilustrado Sí
  • ISBN 9780803213913 / 0803213913
  • Peso 0.6 libras (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensiones 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 pulgadas (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008027597
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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 Clzio 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.
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Lincoln. 2009. March 2009. University of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket as Issued. 9780803213913. Foreword by Percival Everett. 123 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Africa Djibouti Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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… Leer más
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