| Description |
viii, 123 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"French voices"--Cover. |
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Originally published: Aux États-Unis d'Afrique. Paris : J.C. Lattès, c2006. |
| Summary |
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 |
| Subject |
Africa -- Fiction.
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Dystopias -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Ball, David, 1937-
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Ball, Nicole, 1941-
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| Added Title |
Aux États-Unis d'Afrique. English
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| ISBN |
0803213913 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780803213913 cloth alkaline paper |
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0803222629 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780803222625 paperback alkaline paper |
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