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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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So Distant from My Life

So Distant from My Life

Ilboudo, Monique
Kamara, Yarri
Kumar, Sashi

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1911284800
ISBN13: 9781911284802
Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
Published: Oct 27 2022
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Shortlisted, 2023 ALTA National Translation Award One of the Observer's fiction picks for 2022 Winner, PEN Heim award 'To deter me, my uncle spoke to me about roots. A line of argument that I found absurd. Even plants are intelligent enough to grow around stones, seeking the best soil for their roots underground.' Jeanphi, a young man from the fictional West African city Ouabany, has one obsession that will determine the fate of his life - migration. He scrapes together money to take the illegal route across the Sahara, making it as far as Morocco before being repatriated. Increasingly desperate, Jeanphi meets an elegant French widower who for his part is despairing at the insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles for his charitable endeavour in Jeanphi's country. A window opens to opportunity - but it will also bring tragedy. Burkinabé author Monique Ilboudo's novel offers a compelling and complex portrait of migration, one of the defining global concerns of the twenty-first century, and a sharp critique of both the NGO-isation of African countries and the currents of shame that divide communities and families. Yarri Kamara has rendered Ilboudo's text in an idiom that conveys the sharp humour, lucid descriptions and urgency of the original.

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