The Virgin of Flames: A Novel - Softcover

Abani, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014303877X ISBN 13: 9780143038771

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2007

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Book by Abani Chris

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Críticas:

Abani [is] a fluid, closely observant writer. (The Washington Post)

Abani's intensely visual style--and his sense of humor--convert the stuff of hopelessness into the stuff of hope. (San Francisco Chronicle)

GraceLand amply demonstrates that Abani has the energy, ambition and compassion to create a novel that delineates and illuminates a complicated, dynamic, deeply fractured society. (Los Angeles Times)

Abani . . . has written an exhilarating novel, all the more astonishing for its hard-won grace and, yes, redemption. (The Village Voice)

In depicting how deeply external politics can affect internal thinking, GraceLand announces itself as a worthy heir to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Like that classic of Nigerian literature, it gives a multifaceted, human face to a culture struggling to find its own identity while living with somebody else's. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Reseña del editor:

A gritty novel set against the backdrop of East L.A. follows a struggling artist named Black on a journey of self-discovery that reveals important questions about poverty, ethnicity, and religion in modern-day America. By the author of the award-winning GraceLand. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 014303877X
• ISBN 13: 9780143038771
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304