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Maaza (Hrsg.) Mengiste

Addis Ababa Noir

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Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't.Several of the 14 stories here, most of them striking and accomplished, involve post-revolution loss, guilt and revenge. Some are surreal--fitting for a culture where, as Mengiste writes in her introduction, 'there are men who live in the mountains of Ethiopia and can turn into hyenas.'--Washington PostWhile most stories told about or set in Africa deny the continent and the nearly 60 countries that constitute it narrative complexity, this anthology works overtime to get specific about the people and problems that def… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61775-827-0
  • EAN: 9781617758270
  • Produktnummer: 32682530
  • Verlag: Akashic Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'731 KB

Über den Autor


MAAZA MENGISTE is a novelist and essayist who was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Creative Capital. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the ten best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other publications. Her work can be found in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other places. She was a writer on the documentary projects Girl Rising and The Invisible City: Kakuma. Her second novel, The Shadow King, was published in September 2019.

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