![]() ![]() ![]() David and Nicole Ball, both independent translators in Northampton, Massachusetts, have published several translations separately, as well as together, including Lascaux: A Work of Memory. Le Cl zio recognized and paid tribute to Waberi in his 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture. ![]() ![]() His first collection of short stories, Le Pays Sans Ombre (published in English as The Land without Shadows) won Belgium's Royal Academy of French Language and Literature Grand Prix. He has published numerous books, articles, and stories. Waberi was born in Djibouti in 1965 and has lived in France since 1985. Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant, reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth. 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. It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. 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. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. ![]()
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