CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French: The Land without Shadows (Paperback)

from shawnd

Waberi's disjointed and poetic rambling melange of Djibouti life achieves some measure of describing this dysfunctional society. The book meanders starting from a traditional 'village life' scenic look at urban Djibouti and ends with a contemporary political look at a starving, disenfranchised po...

from shawnd

Waberi's disjointed and poetic rambling melange of Djibouti life achieves some measure of describing this dysfunctional society. The book meanders starting from a traditional 'village life' scenic look at urban Djibouti and ends with a contemporary political look at a starving, disenfranchised po...

from kaitanya64

Poetic, fragmentary pieces that are sometimes stories, sometimes more like essays. I didn't know much about Djbouti before I read this, but I really got a sense from this not only about Djbouti, but about the view from inside a "third world" country, how people deal with the confusion of everyday...