Chinua Achebe: Home And Exile
Home And Exile
Buch
- Canongate Books, 02/2003
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781841953854
- Bestellnummer: 7279110
- Umfang: 128 Seiten
- Sonstiges: No
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 100 g
- Maße: 199 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 10 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 21.2.2003
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
'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, Jr
CHINUA 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 International Judge
'Home and Exile shines through the cold cant of our winter of new empires, doing for stories what spring does for apricot trees.'
- Richard Flanagan author of Gould's Book of Fish
'A distillation of the thoughts and feelings of one of the world's foremost contemporary writers - it speaks for the countless millions who were silenced for generation upon generation.'
- Sunday Herald
'Delves deep into the psyche of oppressed peoples and concludes that it is vital for them to take back their own stories.'
- Observer
Biografie
Chinua Achebe, geboren 1930 in Ogidi/Nigeria, studierte zunächst Medizin, dann Literatur, Geschichte und Religion an der Universität von Ibadan/Nigeria. Leiter des nigerianischen Rundfunks. Lehrtätigkeiten an verschiedenen Universitäten von Nigeria sowie der Universität von Massachusetts/Amhurst und Connecticut. Er leitete den Fachbereich für Literatur an der Universität von Nsukka/Nigeria und erhielt 2002 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Chinua Achebe verstarb 2013.![Chinua Achebe: Home And Exile, Buch](https://lesen.de/image/w468/front/0/9781841953854.jpg)
Chinua Achebe
Home And Exile
EUR 12,96*