Monique Ilboudo: So Distant From My Life

Cover: 9781911284802 | So Distant From My Life | Monique Ilboudo | Taschenbuch | 128 S.

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Shortlisted, 2023 ALTA National Translation Award One of the Observer's fiction picks for 2022 Winner, PEN Heim award 'To deter me, my uncle spoke to me about roots. A line of argument that I found absurd. Even plants are intelligent enough to grow around stones, seeking the best soil for their roots underground.' Jeanphi, a young man from the fictional West African city Ouabany, has one obsession that will determine the fate of his life - migration. He scrapes together money to take the illegal route across the Sahara, making it as far as Morocco before being repatriated. Increasingly desperate, Jeanphi meets an elegant French widower who for his part is despairing at the insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles for his charitable endeavour in Jeanphi's country. A window opens to opportunity - but it will also bring tragedy. Burkinabé author Monique Ilboudo's novel offers a compelling and complex portrait of migration, one of the defining global concerns of the twenty-first century, and a sharp critique of both the NGO-isation of African countries and the currents of shame that divide communities and families. Yarri Kamara has rendered Ilboudo's text in an idiom that conveys the sharp humour, lucid descriptions and urgency of the original.

Über den Autor

Monique Ilboudo is an author and human rights activist from Burkina Faso, the first woman to publish a novel in her country, and a major figure in Francophone African literature. Yarri Kamara is an emerging translator from Sierra Leone and Uganda who now lives in Burkina Faso. This will be her first book-length translation into English.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	128 S.
ISBN-13:	9781911284802
ISBN-10:	1911284800
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ilboudo, Monique
Übersetzung:	Kamara, Yarri
Hersteller:	Tilted Axis Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	195 x 125 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Monique Ilboudo
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.12.2022
Gewicht:	0,122 kg