An African Quilt - 24 Modern African Stories

Informationen zum Autor Barbara H. Solomon Klappentext Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent's history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader's sense of what it means to be human. With Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Others Zusammenfassung Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. Includes Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others

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Barbara H. Solomon

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• Authors: W Reginald Rampone, W. Reginald Rampone, Barbara Solomon, Barbara H Solomon, Barbara H. Solomon, Barbara H. (INT)/ Rampone Solomon
• Assisted by: Barbar H Solomon (Editor), Barbara H Solomon (Editor), W Reginald Rampone (Editor), W. Reginald Rampone (Editor), Rampone W. Reginald (Editor), Reginald Rampone (Editor), Reginald Rampone (Editor), Barbara H Solomon (Editor), Barbara H. Solomon (Editor), Solomon Barbara H. (Editor), Solomon Barbara H. (Introduction)
• Publisher: Signet USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2012
• EAN: 9780451532039
• ISBN: 978-0-451-53203-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Signet Classics; Signet Classics; Penguin Publishing Group
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: literary and general