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In the United States of Africa

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In the United States of AfricaIn 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

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, Mala ka, 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 03/01/2009
ISBN: 9780803222625
Pages: 123
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.48w x 0.28d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2009 pg. 109
Library Journal Annex 04/13/2009
Multicultural Review 05/01/2010 pg. 48
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