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Why Do You Dance When You Walk?
Häftad, 2022, 9-12 år
160 kr
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Papa, why do you dance when you walk?'When Aden's 8-year-old daughter asks him this one morning in Paris, he is taken aback. The question is innocent, but the answer is not so simple. Unable to resist Bea's inquisitive spirit, he moves silkily between memories of his childhood: from his silent, …
When We Only Have the Earth
Häftad, 2025
235 kr
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In this ode to the earth and all its living creatures, French Djiboutian poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi sounds the alarm about our imperiled planet, where “the Sahel rises in you, in me / the Red Sea boils in you, in me / Nunvut is melting in you, in me.” This translation by …
Harvest of Skulls
Häftad, 2017
184 kr
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In 1994, the akazu, Rwandan's political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that …
Harvest of Skulls
E-bok, 2017
116 kr
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In 1994, the akazu, Rwandan's political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that …
In the United States of Africa
Häftad, 2009
296 kr
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In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and …
Land Without Shadows
Inbunden, 2005
753 kr
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One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view, ""The Land without Shadows"" is a collection of seventeen short stories. The author, Abdourahman A. Waberi, one of a handful of francophone writers of fiction to have emerged in the twentieth century from the …
Land Without Shadows
Häftad, 2005
265 kr
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One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view, ""The Land without Shadows"" is a collection of seventeen short stories. The author, Abdourahman A. Waberi, one of a handful of francophone writers of fiction to have emerged in the twentieth century from the …
Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper
Inbunden, 2015
215 kr
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Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer …
Passage of Tears
Häftad, 2018
196 kr
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Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of writing--spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables, incantations, and prayers. Djibril's reminiscences provide a sense of Djibouti's past and its people, while a satire of …
Naming the Dawn
Inbunden, 2018
176 kr
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The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond—with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets, with the landscapes those poets walked, among which Waberi grew up. The sage yearns here for the simplicity of each …
Divine Song
Inbunden, 2020
202 kr
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“Everything starts with a song and everything ends with another song,” says the narrator of The Divine Song. Paris is an old Sufi cat who keeps watch over his brilliant yet pathetic master, Sammy Kamau-Williams, the Enchanter. In Sammy, we recognize the African American singer-composer, poet, and …
Pasaje de lágrimas
E-bok, 2014
68 kr
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Jibril abandonó Yibuti hace años. En Montreal se convirtió en un hombre nuevo. El país de su infancia ahora es para él tan sólo una tierra extraña. Contratado por una agencia de información, debe regresar durante unos días para llevar a cabo una misión. Francia, Estados Unidos, Dubái y los …
