Books set in Djibouti (5)
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Pasaje de lágrimas by Abdourahman A. Waberi ES
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Jibril abandonó Yibuti hace años. En Montreal se convirtió en un hombre nuevo. El país de su infancia ahora es para él tan sólo una tierra extraña. Contratado por una agencia de información, debe regresar durante unos días para llevar a cabo una misión. Francia, Estados Unidos, Dubái y los islamistas se disputan este trozo de basalto. A Jibril le tienen sin cuidado sus querellas, pero se siente traicionado por este país que nació, como él mismo, un 17 de junio de 1977, el día de la independencia. Las heridas se abren, los fantasmas de los suyos le atormentan, su investigación se atasca. Día tr... continue
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The Land Without Shadows by Abdourahman A. Waberi EN
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Originally published in France in 1994, this newly translated collection presents stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. With irony and humor, these short stories portray madmen, poets, artists, French colonists, pseudointellectuals, young women, aspiring politicians, famished refugees, khat chewers, nomads struggling to survive in Djibouti's ruthless natural environment, or tramps living (and dying) in Balbala, the shantytown that stretches to the south of the capital--Cover.
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The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink From the Big Dipper by Abdourhaman A. Waberi EN
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Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Waberi writes passionately about his country's landscape, drawing for us pictures of "desert furrows of fire" and a "yellow chameleon sky." Waberi's poems take us to unexpected spaces--in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is "sucked up by the eye of the sun--black often, pin... continue
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