hwacleveland.blogg.se - In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi

Post, Three Percent|""In the United States of Africa, winner of the French Voices Award, is a splendid learning opportunity for readers in the US and Europe.

It is a very accomplished novel though, one that definitely deserves to be part of the ""French Voices"" series, and that the University of Nebraska should be admired for bringing out.""-Chad W. It's not a fun-filled romp in an imagined world turned on its head. In David and Nicole Ball's translation, Waberi's prose reads as both riotously funny and lyrically lush, offering big laughs as well as multifaceted subtleties of expression.""-Ryan Michael Williams, |""In the United States of Africa is not a simple book.

Waberi manages to convince of the power of art and love to heal very real rifts.""-Publishers Weekly|""Writing in French, Waberi-born in Djibouti, but a longtime resident of France-satirizes commonly-held assumptions about the global political and economic order by imagining what things might be like if Africa were to swap places with the West. It's there that a dreamy, restless young artist named Maya ponders her history.

Multicultural Review - pg.|||||||""Djibouti-born Waberi's brief and concentrated tale-part satire, part fable, part fever-dream-imagines the world turned upside down: a war rages between Quebec and the American Midwest, and all of ""Euramerica"" is a dark, barbaric hellhole.

Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant, reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth. Now a young artist, this girl, Mala ka, travels to the troubled land of her birth in hope of finding her mother-and perhaps something of her lost self. It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. 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. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A.