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In the United States of Africa Hardcover - 2009
by Abdourahman A. Waberi; David Ball (Translator); Nicole Ball (Translator)
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- Title In the United States of Africa
- Author Abdourahman A. Waberi; David Ball (Translator); Nicole Ball (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Ex-library
- Pages 134
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
- Date 2009-03
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780803213913 / 0803213913
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008027597
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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In the United States of Africa (French Voices)
by Waberi, Abdourahman A.
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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…
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