2008, ISBN: 0316113786

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

[EAN: 9780316113786], [SC: 25.18], [PU: New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008)], FIRST BOOK, SHORT STORIES, KENYA, ETHOPIA, NIGERIA, AKPAN, UWEM SIGNED HARDCOVER EDITION - AFRICAN LITERA… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780316113786], [SC: 25.18], [PU: New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008)], FIRST BOOK, SHORT STORIES, KENYA, ETHOPIA, NIGERIA, AKPAN, UWEM SIGNED HARDCOVER EDITION - AFRICAN LITERATURE NOISBN, Jacket, SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Nigerian author's prize winning first book - a collection of five short stories, each set in a different country in Africa, and each a testament to the incredible resilience of children. From a family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya in "Ex-Mas Feast" to a a Rwandan girl who relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts, and a young brother and sister coping with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery, the toll of poverty and religious conflict becomes clear. Louise Erdrich called this book "A beautiful, bitter, compelling read. The savagely strange juxtapositions in these stories are grounded by the loving relationships between brothers and sisters forced to survive in a world of dreamlike horror. Open the book at any page, as in divination, and a stunning sentence will leap out. Newspaper facts are molded by Akpan's sure touch into fictional works of great power." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction among other honors. The author's first novel, "New York, My Village", was published in November 2021 to excellent reviews. Map frontispiece. 358 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket., Books<

2008, ISBN: 0316113786

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

[EAN: 9780316113786], [SC: 25.26], [PU: New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008)], FIRST BOOK, SHORT STORIES, KENYA, ETHOPIA, NIGERIA, AKPAN, UWEM SIGNED HARDCOVER EDITION - AFRICAN LITERA… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780316113786], [SC: 25.26], [PU: New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008)], FIRST BOOK, SHORT STORIES, KENYA, ETHOPIA, NIGERIA, AKPAN, UWEM SIGNED HARDCOVER EDITION - AFRICAN LITERATURE NOISBN, Jacket, SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Nigerian author's prize winning first book - a collection of five short stories, each set in a different country in Africa, and each a testament to the incredible resilience of children. From a family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya in "Ex-Mas Feast" to a a Rwandan girl who relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts, and a young brother and sister coping with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery, the toll of poverty and religious conflict becomes clear. Louise Erdrich called this book "A beautiful, bitter, compelling read. The savagely strange juxtapositions in these stories are grounded by the loving relationships between brothers and sisters forced to survive in a world of dreamlike horror. Open the book at any page, as in divination, and a stunning sentence will leap out. Newspaper facts are molded by Akpan's sure touch into fictional works of great power." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction among other honors. The author's first novel, "New York, My Village", was published in November 2021 to excellent reviews. Map frontispiece. 358 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket., Books<

2008, ISBN: 0316113786

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

[EAN: 9780316113786], [SC: 25.01], [PU: New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008)], FIRST BOOK, SHORT STORIES, KENYA, ETHOPIA, NIGERIA, AKPAN, UWEM SIGNED HARDCOVER EDITION - AFRICAN LITERA… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780316113786], [SC: 25.01], [PU: New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008)], FIRST BOOK, SHORT STORIES, KENYA, ETHOPIA, NIGERIA, AKPAN, UWEM SIGNED HARDCOVER EDITION - AFRICAN LITERATURE NOISBN, Jacket, SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Nigerian author's prize winning first book - a collection of five short stories, each set in a different country in Africa, and each a testament to the incredible resilience of children. From a family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya in "Ex-Mas Feast" to a a Rwandan girl who relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts, and a young brother and sister coping with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery, the toll of poverty and religious conflict becomes clear. Louise Erdrich called this book "A beautiful, bitter, compelling read. The savagely strange juxtapositions in these stories are grounded by the loving relationships between brothers and sisters forced to survive in a world of dreamlike horror. Open the book at any page, as in divination, and a stunning sentence will leap out. Newspaper facts are molded by Akpan's sure touch into fictional works of great power." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction among other honors. The author's first novel, "New York, My Village", was published in November 2021 to excellent reviews. Map frontispiece. 358 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket., Books<

ISBN: 9780316113786

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrat… Mehr…

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing shortof transcendent. Media >, [PU: Little, Brown]<