As the Crow Flies - Couverture souple

Tadjo, Veronique

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143026224 ISBN 13 : 9780143026228

Editeur : Penguin Books (South Africa), 2009

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Biographie de l'auteur :

VERONIQUE TADJO was born in Paris in 1955 and grew up in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. She has a BA in English from Abidjan University and a doctorate degree in African University. Tadjo's work includes two collections of poems, Laterite (Hatier, 1984), which won a literary award, and a mi-chemin (L'Harmattan, 2000); three novels, Le Royaume Aveugle (L'Harmattan, 1992), A Vol d'Oiseau (Nathan, 1991 and L'Harmattan, 1992) and Champs de Bataille et d'Amour (Presence Africaine/Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1999). She has written and illustrated several children's books and has edited a short anthology of African poetry, Talking Drums (A & C Black, 2000).She has facilitated workshops on writing and illustrating children's books in several countries. Her latest book, L'ombre d'lmana (Actes Sud, 2000), is on Rwanda and the genocide. WANGUI WA GORO is a social critic, interpreter and writer as well as a translator, with a strong interest in the development of African languages. She writes and recites poetry. In 1989 she published her work on non-fiction on Mekatilili (Vita Books), and she has translated Ngugi's novels, and children's books into English.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“He was a magnificent man with hands that smiled at anyone who knew how to look at them. His long fingers and the beauty of his gestures evoked poetry. But what made you dream was the rhythmic lilt in the tone of his voice and its ability to both speak and empathize.” The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell stories of parting and return, suffering, healing and desire in a lyrical and moving exploration of the human heart. Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual lives.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books (South Africa)
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143026224
• ISBN 13: 9780143026228
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100