The Land Without Shadows

The Land Without Shadows PDF Author: Abdourahman A. Waberi
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Book Description
Originally published in France in 1994, this newly translated collection presents stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. With irony and humor, these short stories portray madmen, poets, artists, French colonists, pseudointellectuals, young women, aspiring politicians, famished refugees, khat chewers, nomads struggling to survive in Djibouti's ruthless natural environment, or tramps living (and dying) in Balbala, the shantytown that stretches to the south of the capital--Cover.