In the United States of Africa (Paperback)

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 the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa. It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. Now a young artist, this girl, Malaika, travels to the troubled land of her birth in hope of finding her mother--and perhaps something of her lost self. Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant, reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	French Voices
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	Abdourahman A Waberi
Translators:	David Ball • Nicole Ball
Foreword by:	Percival Everett
Dimensions:	215 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	134
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-2262-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-2262-9
Barcode:	9780803222625

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