Scrabble - A Chadian Childhood

In 1979, two young boys play Scrabble in a hot, dusty district of N'Djamena, Chad, while around them war rages, apparently destroying all in its path: people, places, and memories. And yet, just as the boys take their letters from the depths of the pouch, so Michael Ferrier draws from the darkness words and images that he reassembles into a beautiful and moving tribute to the city, its people, and the childhood that seemed to end there in those days of chaos and destruction but which he brings miraculously back to life in a defiant, poetic statement on the power of friendship, family, and memory.

About the author

Michael Ferrier is a French writer, novelist and essayist, living in Tokyo.

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, and the author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas (University of California Press, 2010); Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferriere, Danticat (Liverpool University Press, 2007); and editor of Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (Liverpool University Press, 2010).

Product details

• Authors: Michael Ferrier
• Assisted by: Martin Munro (Translation), Martin (Florida State University (United States)) Munro (Translation)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781802076868
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-686-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: World Writing in French: New Archipelagoes
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies