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ISBN-10: 0253006899

ISBN-13: 9780253006899

Edition: 2012

Authors: Abdourahman A. Waberi, David Ball, Nicole Ball

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Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police, is there too--arrested earlier as a political suspect. An embassy official mistakes Bashir for Harbi's son, and as Harbi does not deny it, both will be exiled to France, Alice's home country. This brilliantly shrewd and cynical universal chronicle of war and exile, translated into English for the first time, amounts to a lyrical and reflective history of Djibouti and its tortuous politics,…    
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Book details

List price: $13.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, and professor of literature at George Washington University. He is author of The Land without Shadows, In the United States of Africa and Passage of Tears, the last also published by Seagull Books.

David Ball lives in Golden, Colorado with his wife and two children.

Nicole Ball has translated nine books from French.