Measuring Time: A Novel - Softcover

Habila, Helon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393052516 ISBN 13: 9780393052510

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

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Book by Habila Helon

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Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of becoming a soldier who meets beautiful women. Mamo, the sickly, awkward twin, is doomed to remain in the village with his father. Gradually he comes out of his father's shadow and gains local fame as a historian, and, using Plutarch's Parallel Lives as his model, he embarks on the ambitious project of writing a "true" history of his people. But when the rains fail and famine rages, religious zealots incite the people to violence-and LaMamo returns to fight the enemy at home. A novel of ardent loyalty, encroaching modernity, political desire, and personal liberation, Measuring Time is a heart-wrenching history of Nigeria, portrayed through the eyes of a single family.

Biografía del autor:

Helon Habila is the internationally renowned author of Waiting for an Angel, which won both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Caine Prize for African Writing, and Measuring Time and Oil on Water. He was born in Nigeria and now divides his time between America and Nigeria.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393052516
• ISBN 13: 9780393052510
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384