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The Village of Waiting

The Village of Waiting

Packer, George

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAnthropologyAfrica

Publisher Price: $25.99

ISBN10: 0374527806
ISBN13: 9780374527808
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Aug 1 2001
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Back in print, the masterful (The New York Times Book Review) account of an American in West Africa

Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means wait a little more) in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople--peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on development, find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.

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