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Ali Hilal Ali - Swallowers of Bones, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Swallowers of Bones

Av Ali Hilal Ali

Del i serien African Language Literatures in Translation

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The Swallowers of Bones—originally published in Kiswahili as Mmeza Fupa—tells the story of an unlikely pair. Bi. Msiri, an isolated and childless widow who has reached the remarkable age of two hundred years, feels the time has come to share the carefully guarded secrets of her past with the next generation. Miftaha, an ambitious young teacher, wants more for the fractured and impoverished society in which he lives. By befriending Bi. Msiri and harnessing her stories, Miftaha inspires the political awakening of a new generation, and in the process repairs his troubled relationship with his own conservative father.While its place names are fictional, this unique and beautifully crafted novel reads like an ode to the distinct heritage of the Swahili coast. Drawing on folk traditions, and peppered with verse, The Swallowers of Bones collapses centuries of injustice into its taut narrative and imagines an African future that refuses to sacrifice communal well-being or ancestral wisdom to the allures of globalization.
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ALI HILAL ALI is a Kiswahili novelist, short story writer, poet, and Islamic scholar. He was born in Kalani on Zanzibar’s Pemba Islan in 1989 and grew up in Wete, Pemba. Winner of the 2017 Safal Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature in the fiction category, his second novel, Mmeza Fupa, was published in 2019. His first novel, Safari Yangu, was published in 2015. Several of his poems were included in the anthology Kurasa Mpya: Fungamano la Malenga published in 2016. Ali also holds a BSc in Social Protection from the Institute for Financial Management (IFM) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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A splendid, rich, poetic, flowing novel. . . Like the river that runs through the village of Maukio at the heart of this story, Ali Hilal Ali’s breathtaking prose cleanses, enriches, inspires. His narrative abounds with warmth and compassion, lyricism and wisdom. Meg Arenberg’s assured, innovative, equally inspiring and poetic translation keeps pace at every step with image, description, and scene, seamlessly weaving in the source language and culture in ways that are beautifully respectful and are deeply satisfying to the reader. A wonderful book in a wonderful English rendering.

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