
A Life Elsewhere
An impressive debut collection of 17 short stories from the winner of the 2005 Caine Prize for African WritingFor the characters in Segun Afolabi's debut collection, "elsewhere" is a place they must transform into home. The Far East, Europe, the Americas, Africa—the stories are as varied as their geographical settings. In the award-winning "Monday Morning" a refugee boy puzzles out his place in a ...
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Random House UK (April 5, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0099485184
ISBN-13: 978-0099485186
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 5411416
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook
- 0099485184 pdf
- 978-0099485186 pdf
- Segun Afolabi epub
- Segun Afolabi ebooks
- Literature and Fiction epub books
Read Secure coding in c and c 2nd edition sei series in software engineering ebook 51tranpukudo.wordpress.com Psycome vol 6 light novel a murderer and the deadly love affair Download Monsternomicon privateer press d20 pdf at 3ebyasuon.wordpress.com Here Staar test ractice books pdf link Here Unamentals o nuclear science an engineering secon eition pdf link
ew land. A bereaved father in "Arithmetic" thinks back to a confusing, youthful sexual encounter that has left him emotionally scarred; Jacinta faces a long retirement with a husband she is not sure she likes in "Jumbo and Jacinta" and "The Wine Guitar" tells the story of an aging musician who pays a prostitute for the gift of her youth. These are tales of Diaspora, of people making their lives in new lands, some for the first time, others in the second or third generations. Often moving, sometimes funny, and occasionally shocking, Afolabi's stories reflect the way we live now; exploring the universal need to establish family and identity in a world where the boundaries of geography, culture, and language are increasingly fluid. Afolabi's elegantly restrained prose and his fascination with the internal emotional lives of his characters—the often painful negotiation of relationships and navigation of life's uncertainties—mark him as a highly original and engaging new literary voice.
Leave a Comment