Stories Gogo Told Me - Softcover

Grainger, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1485900034 ISBN 13: 9781485900030

Verlag: Penguin Random House Australia, 2021

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Reseña del editor

There is a storyteller in almost every village in Africa. Telling stories is not her official job. By day she may be a Gogo, a teacher, a farmer or a seamstress. But at night, round the fire, she will sit surrounded by young children, old friends, neighbours and travellers. She will tell of how it was in the olden days, when the earth was young, when man was a hunter-gatherer, and when the animals roamed wild throughout the continent. The author spent several months hiking around the villages, towns, farms and deserts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa, asking people who can't read or write to tell her their favourite stories. The result is this children's treasury of legends and fables, of witchdoctors and kingdoms of strange creatures and talking animals, which celebrates Africa and its ancient storytelling culture.

Biografía del autor

Lisa Grainger was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1964, and studied journalism at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, before embarking on her career at The Star in Johannesburg. She has lived in London for the past twenty years, working as a full-time journalist and editor for The Times and The Sunday Times, and as the features director for Elle. Having left full-time employment to write this book, she now freelances as a writer from London.

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• Verlag: Penguin Random House Australia
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1485900034
• ISBN 13: 9781485900030
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208