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050 00 PQ2683.A23|bA9813 2009 
082 00 843/.914|222 
100 1  Waberi, Abdourahman A.,|d1965- 
240 10 Aux États-Unis d'Afrique.|lEnglish 
245 10 In the United States of Africa /|cAbdourahman A. Waberi ; 
       translated by David and Nicole Ball ; foreword by Percival
       Everett. 
264  1 Lincoln :|bUniversity of Nebraska Press,|c2009. 
300    viii, 123 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "French voices"--Cover. 
500    Originally published: Aux États-Unis d'Afrique. Paris : 
       J.C. Lattès, c2006. 
520    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. In the United States of Africa, however
       --land of Africola and Sarr Mbock coffeehouses--peace and 
       prosperity reign, even if tinged with xenophobia (White 
       Trash, Back Home! a headline blares). And it's there that 
       a dreamy, restless young artist named Maya ponders her 
       history. Adopted as a child by a doctor on a humanitarian 
       mission in Paris, Maya longs to find her birth mother, 
       even as her beloved adoptive one lies dying. She travels 
       to France, a country moldering at the roots, smelling of 
       urine and need, to find out, and though there's no bliss-
       filled reunion, Waberi manages to convince of the power of
       art and love to heal very real rifts 
650  0 Dystopias|vFiction. 
651  0 Africa|vFiction. 
700 1  Ball, David,|d1937- 
700 1  Ball, Nicole,|d1941- 
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