Helon Habila

Measuring Time

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Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of becoming a soldier who meets beautiful women. Mamo, the sickly, awkward twin, is doomed to remain in the village with his father. Gradually he comes out of his father's shadow and gains local fame as a historian, and, using Plutarch's Parallel Lives as his model, he embarks on the ambitious project of writing a true history of his people. But when the rains fail and famine rages, religious… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-05251-0
EAN: 9780393052510
Produktnummer: 19367794
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.7 cm 477 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 477

Über den Autor

Helon Habila is the author of Oil on Water, Measuring Time, Waiting for an Angel, and The Chibok Girls. He is associate professor of creative writing at George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.