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Mrs. Shaw
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Artikel-Nr:
9780821421437
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.06.2015
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Gewicht:
426 g
Format:
236x148x2 mm
Serie:
Modern African Writing
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University and the author of Nairobi Heat, Black Star Nairobi, and Hurling Words at Consciousness. In 2014, Buchkultur named the German translation of Nairobi Heat the Crime Book of the Season. In 2009, Mukoma was short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing and in 2010 for the Penguin Prize for African Writing for his manuscript The First and Second Books of Transition, which became Mrs. Shaw.
In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation's exiles are preparing to return. One of these exiles, a young man named Kalumba, is a graduate student in the United States, where he encounters Mrs.