Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Informationen zum Autor Petina Gappah is an international lawyer and writer who was born in Kitwe, Zambia and raised in Zimbabwe. She is the author of An Elegy for Easterly , The Book of Memory and Rotten Row . Her work has shortlisted for, among others, the Orwell Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN America Open Book Award and the Prix Femina (Étrangers). She is the 2009 recipient of the Guardian First Book Award and the 2016 recipient of the McKitterick Prize from the Society of Authors. Having spent more than a decade working as an international trade lawyer in Geneva, Petina now divides her time between Harare and Berlin, where she is a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm. Klappentext Prize-winning author Petina Gappah's tale of Dr Livingstone's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'incredible' (Yaa Gyasi), 'powerful' (Jesmyn Ward), and 'beautiful' (Anthony Doerr). 'A fine writer.' J.M. Prize-winning author Petina Gappah's tale of Dr Livingstone's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'incredible' (Yaa Gyasi), 'powerful' (Jesmyn Ward), and 'beautiful' (Anthony Doerr). Zusammenfassung Prize-winning author Petina Gappah's tale of Dr Livingstone's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'incredible' (Yaa Gyasi), 'powerful' (Jesmyn Ward), and 'beautiful' (Anthony Doerr). 'A fine writer.' J.M.

Product details

• Authors: Petina Gappah, Gappah Petina
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2020
• EAN: 9780571345342
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34534-2
• No. of pages: 307
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: 202 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Modern & contemporary fiction, Fiction: general & literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers