In the United States of Africa

by Abdourahman A. Waberi

Book Overview

In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa. It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803222629
• ISBN13: 9780803222625
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 8.6"