Say You're One of Them
Autor Uwem Akpanen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 12 oct 2009
In the second of his stories published in aNew Yorkerspecial fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.
Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.
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ISBN-13: 9781607883418
ISBN-10: 1607883414
Pagini: 3
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Little, Brown & Company
ISBN-10: 1607883414
Pagini: 3
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Little, Brown & Company
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Notă biografică
Uwem
Akpan
was
born
in
Ikot
Akpan
Eda
in
southern
Nigeria.
After
studying
philosophy
and
English
at
Creighton
and
Gonzaga
universities,
he
studied
theology
for
three
years
at
the
Catholic
University
of
Eastern
Africa.
He
was
ordained
as
a
Jesuit
priest
in
2003
and
received
his
MFA
in
creative
writing
from
the
University
of
Michigan
in
2006.
"My
Parents'
Bedroom,"
a
story
from
his
short
story
collection,Say
You're
One
of
Them,
was
one
of
five
short
stories
by
African
writers
chosen
as
finalists
for
The
Caine
Prize
for
African
Writing
2007.Say
You're
One
of
Themwon
the
Commonwealth
Writers'
Prize
for
Best
First
Book
(Africa
Region)
2009
and
PEN/Beyond
Margins
Award
2009,
and
was
a
finalist
for
theLos
Angeles
TimesArt
Seidenbaum
Award
for
First
Fiction.
In
2007,
Akpan
taught
at
a
Jesuit
college
in
Harare,
Zimbabwe.
Now
he
serves
at
Christ
the
King
Church,
Ilasamaja-Lagos,
Nigeria.
Recenzii
"Awe
is
the
only
appropriate
response
to
Uwem
Akpan's
stunning
debut,Say
You're
One
of
Them,
a
collection
of
five
stories
so
ravishing
and
sad
that
I
regret
ever
wasting
superlatives
on
fiction
that
was
merely
very
good.
A."—Jennifer
Reese,Entertainment
Weekly
(EW
Pick
/
Grade
A)
"[A] startling debut collection... Akpan is not striving for surreal effects. He is summoning miseries that are real.... He fuses a knowledge of African poverty and strife with a conspicuously literary approach to storytelling filtering tales of horror through the wide eyes of the young."—Janet Maslin,The New York Times
"Uwem Akpan's searingSay You're One of Themcaptures a ravaged Africa through the dry-eyed gaze of children trying to maintain a sense of normalcy amid chaos."—Megan O'Grady,Vogue
"The humor, the endurance, the horrors and grace-Akpan has captured all of it.... The stories are not only amazing and moving, and imbued with a powerful moral courage-they are also surprisingly expert.... Beautifully constructed, stately in a way that offsets their impoverished scenarios. Akpan wants you to see and feel Africa, its glory and its pain. And you do, which makes this an extraordinary book."—Vince Passaro,O Magazine
"Uwem Akpan, a Nigerian Jesuit priest, has said he was inspired to write by the 'humor and endurance of the poor,' and his debut story collection...about the gritty lives of African children - speaks to the fearsome, illuminating truth of that impulse."—Lisa Shea,Elle
"Haunting prose.... A must-read."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Uwem Akpan's stunning short story collection,Say You're One of Them,offers a richer, more nuanced view of Africa than the one we often see on the news....Akpan never lets us forget that the resilient youngsters caught up in these extraordinary circumstances are filled with their own hopes and dreams, even as he assuredly illuminates the harsh realities."—Patrik Henry Bass,Essence
"In the corrupt, war-ravaged Africa of this starkly beautiful debut collection, identity is shifting, never to be trusted...Akpan's people, and the dreamlike horror of the worlds they reveal, are impossible to forget."—Kim Hubbard,People
"All the promise and heartbreak of Africa today are brilliantly illuminated in this debut collection..."—John Marshall,Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Akpan's brilliance is to present a brutal subject through the bewildered, resolutely chipper voice of children...All five of these stories are electrifying."—Maureen Corrigan,NPR's "Fresh Air"
"...a tour de force that takes readers into the lives glimpsed in passing on the evening news...These are stories that could have been mired in sentimentality. But the spare, straightforward language - there are few overtly expressed emotions, few adjectives--keeps the narratives moving, unencumbered and the pages turning to the end."—Associated Press
"brilliant...an extraordinary portrait of modern Africa... [Akpan]... is an important and gifted writer who should be read."—Deirdre Donahue,USA TODAY
"This fierce story collection from a Nigerian-born Jesuit priest brings home Africa's most haunting tragedies in tales that take you from the streets of Nairobi to the Hutu-Tutsi genocide."—Margo Hammond & Ellen Heltzel,Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Akpan combines the strengths of both fiction and journalism - the dramatic potential of the one and the urgency of the other - to create a work of immense power...He is a gifted storyteller capable of bringing to life myriad characters and points of view...the result is admirable, artistically as well as morally."—Adelle Waldman,Christian Science Monitor
"It is not merely the subject that makes Akpan's...writing so astonishing, translucent, and horrifying all at once; it is his talent with metaphor and imagery, his immersion into character and place....Uwem Akpan has given these children their voices, and for the compassion and art in his stories I am grateful and changed."—Susan Straight,Washington Post Book World (front page review)
"Say You're One of Themis a book that belongs on every shelf."—Sherryl Connelly,New York Daily News
"Searing...In the end, the most enduring image of these disturbing, beautiful and hopeful stories is that of slipping away. Children disappear into the anonymous blur of the big city or into the darkness of the all-encompassing bush. One can only hope that they survive to live another day and tell another tale."—June Sawyers,San Francisco Chronicle
"These stories are complex, full of respect for the characters facing depravity, free of sensationalizing or glib judgments. They are dispatches from a journey, Akpan makes clear, which has only begun. It is to their credit that grim as they are-you cannot but hope these tales have a sequel."—John Freeman,Cleveland Plain-Dealer
"An important literary debut.... Juxtaposed against the clarity and revelation in Akpan's prose-as translucent a style as I've read in a long while--we find subjects that nearly render the mind helpless and throw the heart into a hopeless erratic rhythm out of fear, out of pity, out of the shame of being only a few degrees of separation removed from these monstrous modern circumstances...The reader discovers that no hiding place is good enough with these stories battering at your mind and heart."—Alan Cheuse,Chicago Tribune
"A stupefyingly talented young Nigerian priest. Akpan never flinches from his difficult subjects--poverty, slavery, mass murder--but he has the largeness of soul to make his vision of the terrible transcendent."—Jeffrey Burke and Craig Seligman,Bloomberg News
"Any of the six stories in this collection set in Africa is enough to break a reader's heart. Two are novella length, including a tour de force, 'Luxurious Hearses,' which takes place on a crowded bus."—From citation by Larry Dark for SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, a Notable Book finalist for The Story Prize.
"Robin Miles adopts a lovely French-African accent, and if she allows Akpan's beautiful turns of phrase to shine, the underlying tension and fear are also never far from the surface. Miles also narrates "What Language Is That?" This story is partially unaccented, a choice that accentuates the second-person point of view...Dion Graham, in Kenyan-accented English, successfully embodies the family's mother and father, teenaged daughter, and young son"—AudioFile,Publishers Weekly
"[A] startling debut collection... Akpan is not striving for surreal effects. He is summoning miseries that are real.... He fuses a knowledge of African poverty and strife with a conspicuously literary approach to storytelling filtering tales of horror through the wide eyes of the young."—Janet Maslin,The New York Times
"Uwem Akpan's searingSay You're One of Themcaptures a ravaged Africa through the dry-eyed gaze of children trying to maintain a sense of normalcy amid chaos."—Megan O'Grady,Vogue
"The humor, the endurance, the horrors and grace-Akpan has captured all of it.... The stories are not only amazing and moving, and imbued with a powerful moral courage-they are also surprisingly expert.... Beautifully constructed, stately in a way that offsets their impoverished scenarios. Akpan wants you to see and feel Africa, its glory and its pain. And you do, which makes this an extraordinary book."—Vince Passaro,O Magazine
"Uwem Akpan, a Nigerian Jesuit priest, has said he was inspired to write by the 'humor and endurance of the poor,' and his debut story collection...about the gritty lives of African children - speaks to the fearsome, illuminating truth of that impulse."—Lisa Shea,Elle
"Haunting prose.... A must-read."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Uwem Akpan's stunning short story collection,Say You're One of Them,offers a richer, more nuanced view of Africa than the one we often see on the news....Akpan never lets us forget that the resilient youngsters caught up in these extraordinary circumstances are filled with their own hopes and dreams, even as he assuredly illuminates the harsh realities."—Patrik Henry Bass,Essence
"In the corrupt, war-ravaged Africa of this starkly beautiful debut collection, identity is shifting, never to be trusted...Akpan's people, and the dreamlike horror of the worlds they reveal, are impossible to forget."—Kim Hubbard,People
"All the promise and heartbreak of Africa today are brilliantly illuminated in this debut collection..."—John Marshall,Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Akpan's brilliance is to present a brutal subject through the bewildered, resolutely chipper voice of children...All five of these stories are electrifying."—Maureen Corrigan,NPR's "Fresh Air"
"...a tour de force that takes readers into the lives glimpsed in passing on the evening news...These are stories that could have been mired in sentimentality. But the spare, straightforward language - there are few overtly expressed emotions, few adjectives--keeps the narratives moving, unencumbered and the pages turning to the end."—Associated Press
"brilliant...an extraordinary portrait of modern Africa... [Akpan]... is an important and gifted writer who should be read."—Deirdre Donahue,USA TODAY
"This fierce story collection from a Nigerian-born Jesuit priest brings home Africa's most haunting tragedies in tales that take you from the streets of Nairobi to the Hutu-Tutsi genocide."—Margo Hammond & Ellen Heltzel,Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Akpan combines the strengths of both fiction and journalism - the dramatic potential of the one and the urgency of the other - to create a work of immense power...He is a gifted storyteller capable of bringing to life myriad characters and points of view...the result is admirable, artistically as well as morally."—Adelle Waldman,Christian Science Monitor
"It is not merely the subject that makes Akpan's...writing so astonishing, translucent, and horrifying all at once; it is his talent with metaphor and imagery, his immersion into character and place....Uwem Akpan has given these children their voices, and for the compassion and art in his stories I am grateful and changed."—Susan Straight,Washington Post Book World (front page review)
"Say You're One of Themis a book that belongs on every shelf."—Sherryl Connelly,New York Daily News
"Searing...In the end, the most enduring image of these disturbing, beautiful and hopeful stories is that of slipping away. Children disappear into the anonymous blur of the big city or into the darkness of the all-encompassing bush. One can only hope that they survive to live another day and tell another tale."—June Sawyers,San Francisco Chronicle
"These stories are complex, full of respect for the characters facing depravity, free of sensationalizing or glib judgments. They are dispatches from a journey, Akpan makes clear, which has only begun. It is to their credit that grim as they are-you cannot but hope these tales have a sequel."—John Freeman,Cleveland Plain-Dealer
"An important literary debut.... Juxtaposed against the clarity and revelation in Akpan's prose-as translucent a style as I've read in a long while--we find subjects that nearly render the mind helpless and throw the heart into a hopeless erratic rhythm out of fear, out of pity, out of the shame of being only a few degrees of separation removed from these monstrous modern circumstances...The reader discovers that no hiding place is good enough with these stories battering at your mind and heart."—Alan Cheuse,Chicago Tribune
"A stupefyingly talented young Nigerian priest. Akpan never flinches from his difficult subjects--poverty, slavery, mass murder--but he has the largeness of soul to make his vision of the terrible transcendent."—Jeffrey Burke and Craig Seligman,Bloomberg News
"Any of the six stories in this collection set in Africa is enough to break a reader's heart. Two are novella length, including a tour de force, 'Luxurious Hearses,' which takes place on a crowded bus."—From citation by Larry Dark for SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, a Notable Book finalist for The Story Prize.
"Robin Miles adopts a lovely French-African accent, and if she allows Akpan's beautiful turns of phrase to shine, the underlying tension and fear are also never far from the surface. Miles also narrates "What Language Is That?" This story is partially unaccented, a choice that accentuates the second-person point of view...Dion Graham, in Kenyan-accented English, successfully embodies the family's mother and father, teenaged daughter, and young son"—AudioFile,Publishers Weekly
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Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ... She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.'
These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of children and describes their resilience and endurance in heartbreaking detail. From child trafficking to inter-religious conflicts, Uwem Akpan reveals in beautiful prose the resilience and endurance of children faced with the harsh consequences of deprivation and terror.