![]() ![]() " In the United States of Africa, winner of the French Voices Award, is a splendid learning opportunity for readers in the US and Europe. It is a very accomplished novel though, one that definitely deserves to be part of the "French Voices" series, and that the University of Nebraska should be admired for bringing out."-Chad W. ![]() It's not a fun-filled romp in an imagined world turned on its head. " In the United States of Africa is not a simple book. ![]() In David and Nicole Ball's translation, Waberi's prose reads as both riotously funny and lyrically lush, offering big laughs as well as multifaceted subtleties of expression."-Ryan Michael Williams, (Ryan Michael Williams ) "Writing in French, Waberi-born in Djibouti, but a longtime resident of France-satirizes commonly-held assumptions about the global political and economic order by imagining what things might be like if Africa were to swap places with the West. Waberi manages to convince of the power of art and love to heal very real rifts."- Publishers Weekly ( Publishers Weekly ) It's there that a dreamy, restless young artist named Maya ponders her history. "Djibouti-born Waberi's brief and concentrated tale-part satire, part fable, part fever-dream-imagines the world turned upside down: a war rages between Quebec and the American Midwest, and all of "Euramerica" is a dark, barbaric hellhole. ![]()
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