Home And Exile
'A moving account of an exceptional life . . . A story of the triumphs of the mind, told in the words of one of the world's most gifted writers.'- Henry Louis Gates, JrCHINUA ACHEBE, awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2007, is one of the giants of modern literature. A masterful novelist, poet, short-story writer and essayist, his work burns with a passionate commitment to human dignity and the power of stories. Now, in Home and Exile, his first fully autobiographical work, Achebe recalls his childhood and early adulthood and reveals the man behind the writing.'A joy and an illumination to read.'- Nadine Gordimer Man Booker Internat…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84195-385-4
- EAN: 9781841953854
- Produktnummer: 17609643
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.0 cm 100 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 100
Über den Autor
Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930, and in a long and distinguished career has published novels, stories, essays and poems.Cited in the Sunday Times as one of the 1,000 Makers of the Twentieth Century for defining a modern African literature that was truly African and thereby making a major contribution to world literature. Achebe has received more than 30 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. In 2007 he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize. He lives with his wife in Annandale-on-Hudson, where they teach at Bard College. They have four children.
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