The Granta Book of the African Short Story: Granta Anthologies
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ISBN-13: 9781847083333
ISBN-10: 1847083331
Pagini: 378
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
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Editura: Granta Books
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ISBN-10: 1847083331
Pagini: 378
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
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Cuprins
1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977-) Nigeria, "The Arrangers Of Marriage"
2. Mansoura Ez Eldin (1976-) Egypt, "Faeries of the Nile"
3. Olufemi Terry (1973-) Sierra Leone, "Stickfighting Days"
4. Brian Chikwava (1972-) Zimbabwe, "Dancing with the Jazz Goblin and his Band"
5. Henrietta Rose-Innes (1971-) South Africa, "Promenade"
6. Uwem Akpan (1971-) Nigeria, "An Ex-Mas Feast"
7. Binyavanga Wainaina, (1971-) Kenya, "Ships in High Transit"
8. Patrice Nganang (1970-) Cameroun, "The Moustached Man"
9. Maaza Mengeste(1970-) Ethiopia, "The Good Soldier"
10. Fatou Diome (1968-) Senegal, "La Preference Nationale"
11. Leila Lalami (1968-) Morocco, "Homecoming"
12. Jean-Luc Raharimanana (1967-) Madagascar,"Excuses et dires liminaires de Za"
13. EC Osondu, Nigeria(?) "Bumsters"
14. Doreen Baingana (1966-) Uganda, "Passion"
15. Alain Mabanckou (1966-) Congo, "Nous Gagnerons La Coupe du Monde 2010"
16. Aminatta Forna (1964-) Sierra Leone, "Haywards Heath"
17. Leila Aboulela (1964-) Sudan, "Missing Out"
18. Yvonne Vera (1964-2005) Zimbabwe, "Why Don't you Carve Other Animals?"
19. Milly Jafta (?) Namibia, "Homecoming"
20. Rachida El Charni (?) Tunisia, "Street of the House of Wonders"
21. George Makana Clarke(?) Zimbabwe, "The Centre of the World"
22. Ivan Vladislavik (1957) South Africa, "Propaganda by Monuments"
23. Ala Al-Aswany (1957-)Egypt, "Mmme Zitta"
24. Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (1957-) Mozambique, "Morte Inespereda"
25. Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) Zimbabwe, "Oxford, Black Oxford"
26. Zoe Wicomb (1948-) South Africa, "You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town"
27. Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948-) Zanzibar, "Cages"
28. Manuel Rui (1941-) Angola, "Last Bordello"
29. Camara Laye (1928-1980) Guinea, "The Eyes of the Statue"
30. Alex La Guma (1925-1985) South Africa, "Slipper Satin"
2. Mansoura Ez Eldin (1976-) Egypt, "Faeries of the Nile"
3. Olufemi Terry (1973-) Sierra Leone, "Stickfighting Days"
4. Brian Chikwava (1972-) Zimbabwe, "Dancing with the Jazz Goblin and his Band"
5. Henrietta Rose-Innes (1971-) South Africa, "Promenade"
6. Uwem Akpan (1971-) Nigeria, "An Ex-Mas Feast"
7. Binyavanga Wainaina, (1971-) Kenya, "Ships in High Transit"
8. Patrice Nganang (1970-) Cameroun, "The Moustached Man"
9. Maaza Mengeste(1970-) Ethiopia, "The Good Soldier"
10. Fatou Diome (1968-) Senegal, "La Preference Nationale"
11. Leila Lalami (1968-) Morocco, "Homecoming"
12. Jean-Luc Raharimanana (1967-) Madagascar,"Excuses et dires liminaires de Za"
13. EC Osondu, Nigeria(?) "Bumsters"
14. Doreen Baingana (1966-) Uganda, "Passion"
15. Alain Mabanckou (1966-) Congo, "Nous Gagnerons La Coupe du Monde 2010"
16. Aminatta Forna (1964-) Sierra Leone, "Haywards Heath"
17. Leila Aboulela (1964-) Sudan, "Missing Out"
18. Yvonne Vera (1964-2005) Zimbabwe, "Why Don't you Carve Other Animals?"
19. Milly Jafta (?) Namibia, "Homecoming"
20. Rachida El Charni (?) Tunisia, "Street of the House of Wonders"
21. George Makana Clarke(?) Zimbabwe, "The Centre of the World"
22. Ivan Vladislavik (1957) South Africa, "Propaganda by Monuments"
23. Ala Al-Aswany (1957-)Egypt, "Mmme Zitta"
24. Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (1957-) Mozambique, "Morte Inespereda"
25. Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) Zimbabwe, "Oxford, Black Oxford"
26. Zoe Wicomb (1948-) South Africa, "You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town"
27. Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948-) Zanzibar, "Cages"
28. Manuel Rui (1941-) Angola, "Last Bordello"
29. Camara Laye (1928-1980) Guinea, "The Eyes of the Statue"
30. Alex La Guma (1925-1985) South Africa, "Slipper Satin"
Recenzii
- The skill and sophistication of African authors is on display throughout this rich and rewarding book - Joan Smith, The Times
- Brings together some of the most exciting voices from this generation - Daily Telegraph
- It is an anthology about the agonies of love and war, about family, about longing for home, about transplantation in unaccustomed earth ... The Granta Book of the African Short Story shows, wherever and by whomever they are published, Africa has writers of depth and talent with a multitude of stories as diverse as the continent's countries, cultures and peoples - Petina Gappah, Financial Times
- From Morocco to Namibia, this nutritious harvest of 29 tales spans a tumultuous continent with selections from many of its finest modern writers. These stories of hardship, of adventure and survival, defy easy generalisations but prove that fiction thrives from Casablanca to the Cape - Independent
- Habila has gathered together many of the biggest names around, including six writers in translation, as well as many authors one expects to hear more of in the future. This book is a landmark, a historic record and, most of all, a celebration of what has been an unprecedented decade for African fiction - Guardian
The skill and sophistication of African authors is on display throughout this rich and rewarding book - Joan Smith, The Times Brings together some of the most exciting voices from this generation - Daily Telegraph It is an anthology about the agonies of love and war, about family, about longing for home, about transplantation in unaccustomed earth ... The Granta Book of the African Short Story shows, wherever and by whomever they are published, Africa has writers of depth and talent with a multitude of stories as diverse as the continent's countries, cultures and peoples - Petina Gappah, Financial Times From Morocco to Namibia, this nutritious harvest of 29 tales spans a tumultuous continent with selections from many of its finest modern writers. These stories of hardship, of adventure and survival, defy easy generalisations but prove that fiction thrives from Casablanca to the Cape - Independent Habila has gathered together many of the biggest names around, including six writers in translation, as well as many authors one expects to hear more of in the future. This book is a landmark, a historic record and, most of all, a celebration of what has been an unprecedented decade for African fiction - Guardian
Notă biografică
Helon Habila was born in Nigeria. He has published three novels, Waiting for an Angel (2002), Measuring Time (2007) and Oil on Water (2010). Winner of the Caine Prize 2001, and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2003, Habila currently teaches Creative Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he lives with his family.
Extras
The Arrangers of Marriage by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My new husband carried the suitcase out of the taxi and led the way
into the brownstone, up a flight of brooding stairs, down an airless
hallway with frayed carpeting, and stopped at a door. The number
2B, unevenly fashioned from yellowish metal, was plastered on it.
‘We’re here,’ he said. He had used the word ‘house’ when he told me
about our home. I had imagined a smooth driveway snaking between
cucumber-coloured lawns, a door leading into a hallway, walls with
sedate paintings. A house like those of the white newlyweds in the
American films that NTA showed on Saturday nights.
He turned on the light in the living room, where a beige couch sat
alone in the middle, slanted, as though dropped there by accident.
The room was hot; old, musty smells hung heavy in the air.
‘I’ll show you around,’ he said.
The smaller bedroom had a bare mattress lodged in one corner.
The bigger bedroom had a bed and chest of drawers, and a phone on
the carpeted floor. Still, both rooms lacked a sense of space, as though
the walls had become uncomfortable with each other, with so little
between them.
‘Now that you’re here, we’ll get more furniture. I didn’t need that
much when I was alone,’ he said.
‘OK,’ I said. I felt light-headed. The ten-hour flight from Lagos to
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New York and the interminable wait while the American customs
officer raked through my suitcase had left me woozy, stuffed my
head full of cotton wool. The officer had examined my foodstuffs as if
they were spiders, her gloved fingers poking at the waterproof bags
of ground egusi and dried onugbu leaves and uziza seeds, until she
seized my uziza seeds. She feared I would grow them on American
soil. It didn’t matter that the seeds had been sun-dried for weeks and
were as hard as a bicycle helmet.
My new husband carried the suitcase out of the taxi and led the way
into the brownstone, up a flight of brooding stairs, down an airless
hallway with frayed carpeting, and stopped at a door. The number
2B, unevenly fashioned from yellowish metal, was plastered on it.
‘We’re here,’ he said. He had used the word ‘house’ when he told me
about our home. I had imagined a smooth driveway snaking between
cucumber-coloured lawns, a door leading into a hallway, walls with
sedate paintings. A house like those of the white newlyweds in the
American films that NTA showed on Saturday nights.
He turned on the light in the living room, where a beige couch sat
alone in the middle, slanted, as though dropped there by accident.
The room was hot; old, musty smells hung heavy in the air.
‘I’ll show you around,’ he said.
The smaller bedroom had a bare mattress lodged in one corner.
The bigger bedroom had a bed and chest of drawers, and a phone on
the carpeted floor. Still, both rooms lacked a sense of space, as though
the walls had become uncomfortable with each other, with so little
between them.
‘Now that you’re here, we’ll get more furniture. I didn’t need that
much when I was alone,’ he said.
‘OK,’ I said. I felt light-headed. The ten-hour flight from Lagos to
PB085 African short stories.indd 1 21/06/2012 12:15
2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
New York and the interminable wait while the American customs
officer raked through my suitcase had left me woozy, stuffed my
head full of cotton wool. The officer had examined my foodstuffs as if
they were spiders, her gloved fingers poking at the waterproof bags
of ground egusi and dried onugbu leaves and uziza seeds, until she
seized my uziza seeds. She feared I would grow them on American
soil. It didn’t matter that the seeds had been sun-dried for weeks and
were as hard as a bicycle helmet.
Descriere
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa.
These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant.
Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zoë Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.