Transit: A Novel

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By Abdourahman A. Waberi

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Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police, is there too—arrested earlier as a political suspect. An embassy official mistakes Bashir for Harbi's son, and as Harbi does not deny it, both will be exiled to France, Alice's home country. This brilliantly shrewd and cynical universal chronicle of war and exile, translated into English for the first time, amounts to a lyrical and reflective history of Djibouti and its tortuous politics, crippled economy, and devastated moral landscape.

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Release dateAug 20, 2012

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Think “classic literature” and plenty of white authors probably spring to mind: Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hardy, Woolf, Fitzgerald. Harper Lee, who wrote about race, is a favourite of many – but Black authors themselves are vastly under-represent
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Jun 6, 2023
by Mia Couto, translated by David Brookshaw (World Editions, ISBN 9781912987375) worldeditions.org Fifteen-year-old Imani sits deep in the belly of a ship named Africa. Her fellow travellers include Ngungunyane, emperor of a pre-colonial African king
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Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s
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Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s
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Defining The Ethics Of The Writer And Journalist’s Gaze
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Defining The Ethics Of The Writer And Journalist’s Gaze
May 28, 2020
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Stranger In A strange Land
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Stranger In A strange Land
Jul 3, 2019
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35 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers
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35 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers
Sep 25, 2020
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Their Lives Go On Until They Don’t: The Trouble with Refugee Novels
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Their Lives Go On Until They Don’t: The Trouble with Refugee Novels
Jan 28, 2019
If art is in one sense the processing of reality, how can an artist hope to process that which, in all its horror and incoherence, resists interpretation? The post Their Lives Go On Until They Don’t: The Trouble with Refugee Novels appeared first on
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Isaac Bashevis Singer from Beyond the Grave
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Isaac Bashevis Singer from Beyond the Grave
Mar 18, 2019
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A Year in Reading: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
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A Year in Reading: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Dec 7, 2020
At the beginning of August, the United States Postal Service delivered a box of books I had shipped when I moved from Iowa City to Boston with only five books inside and thirty seven books missing. The post A Year in Reading: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma appea
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Aug 10, 2021
Wole Soyinka (Pantheon Books ISBN 9780593320167) pantheonbooks.com Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate and doyen of African literature, is best known for his plays, poems and essays. A longtime anticorruption activist, he has endured impriso
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Within A Legacy Of Colonization, 'Postcolonial Love Poem' Empowers Native Voice
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Within A Legacy Of Colonization, 'Postcolonial Love Poem' Empowers Native Voice
Mar 6, 2020
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Immigration Doesn't Just Mean Coming To America. These 4 Books Are Good Reminders.
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Immigration Doesn't Just Mean Coming To America. These 4 Books Are Good Reminders.
Jul 3, 2021
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Having A Conversation With Loss And Grief In 'Waiting For The Waters To Rise'
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Having A Conversation With Loss And Grief In 'Waiting For The Waters To Rise'
Aug 5, 2021
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At A Dinner Party Play In Quebec, Politics Is The Main Course
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At A Dinner Party Play In Quebec, Politics Is The Main Course
Nov 28, 2018
During times of intense political polarization, meaningful dialogue often suffers. In Canada, a theatrical “dinner party” offers a radical idea: an opportunity to transcend differences by simply listening.
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The 10 Best Translated Novels of the Decade
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The 10 Best Translated Novels of the Decade
Nov 12, 2019
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Undoing Colonialism In Gender Diversity Discourse In The Philippines
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Undoing Colonialism In Gender Diversity Discourse In The Philippines
Nov 15, 2023
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France As Told By Two
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France As Told By Two
Jan 11, 2019
They mean to prepare the reader for what comes next, the story of the particular way in which time flowed over or through France these past 70 years. The post France as Told by Two appeared first on The Millions.
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