Transit - Abdourahman A. Waberi

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Résumé :
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, crippled economy, and devastated moral landscape.

Biographie:
Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, teacher, and short-story writer. Born in Djibouti, he now lives and writes in France. He is author of The Land without Shadows, In the United States of Africa, and Passage des larmes. Winner of the Stefan-Georg-Preis, the Grand prix litt?raire d'Afrique noire, and the Prix biennal Mandat pour la libert?, he was chosen one of the 50 Writers of the Future by the French literary magazine Lire.David Ball and Nicole Ball have previously translated Waberi's novel In the United States of Africa.

... the rebellious Abdourahman Waberi. J. M. G. Le Clezio, Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature Through Bashir's simple, direct observations, we see a country rife with corruption and hopelessness. Despite the horrors he recounts, his chapters are funny. - NUVO