Berji Kristin Tales from the Garbage Hills

Name: Berji Kristin Tales from the Garbage Hills
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ISBN: 9780714530116

ISBN-10: 0714530115

ISBN-13: 9780714530116

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Latife Tekin, John Berger, Ruth Christie, Salina Parker

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A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.?Independent on Sunday The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a life there for themselves. They are not, however, in any natural wilderness, but in a world of refuse and useless junk?a place which denies any form of sustainable life. Here, the unemployed, the homeless, the old and the bereft struggle to build shelters out of old tin cans, scavenge for food and fight against insuperable odds. And yet somehow they survive: it seems that society thrives on the garbage hills because it has always been built on one. In this dark fairy tale full of scenes taken from what has increasingly…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd.
Publication date: 7/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.70" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English