In the United States of Africa (French Voices (Bison Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for In the United States of Africa 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 ...
Full description- Publisher: BISON BOOKS
- Published: 01 March 2009
- Format: Paperback 123 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780803222625 ISBN 10: 0803222629
- Sales rank: 387,087
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Full description for In the United States of Africa
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.
