Harvest of Skulls

Informationen zum Autor Abdourahman A. Waberi. Translated by Dominic Thomas Klappentext Abdourahman A. Waberi is¿a¿novelist, essayist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Djibouti, he is Professor of French and Francophone literature at George Washington University. The¿author of Transit,¿In the United States of Africa, Passage of Tears, and La Divine Chanson, he has been awarded¿the Stefan-Georg-Preis, the Grand¿Prix Litt¿ire d'Afrique noire, and the Prix biennal "Mandat pour la libert¿ He was named one of the "50 Writers of the Future" by the French literary magazine Lire.¿Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung " Shaped by the author's own experiences in Rwanda and by the stories shared by survivors, Harvest of Skulls stands twenty years after the genocide as an indisputable resource for discussions on testimony and witnessing, the complex relationship between victims and perpetrators, the power of the moral imagination, and how survivors can rebuild a society haunted by the ghost of its history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Post-Genocide Rwanda Acknowledgments FICTIONS Terminus Cavalcade And the dogs feasted STORIES No, Kigali is not sad Return to Kigali Bujumbura Beach Afterword Note on translations

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• Authors: Abdourahman A Waberi, Abdourahman a (C/o Gallimard) Waberi, Abdourahman A. Waberi, WABERI ABDOURAHMAN A
• Assisted by: Translated by Dominic Thomas Abdourahman (Editor), Dominic Thomas (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780253024329
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02432-9
• No. of pages: 78
• Series: Global African Voices; Global African Voices
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature