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The Picador book of African stories
- Title
- The Picador book of African stories / edited by Stephen Gray.
- Publication
- London : Picador, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gray, Stephen, 1941-
- Description
- xvii, 285 p., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Language (note)
- Translated from various languages.
- Contents
- Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz -- The veil / Nawal El Saadawi -- Sandpiper / Ahdaf Soueif -- The escapee / Rachid Mimouni -- The blue viper / Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Colour blues / Lotfi Akalay -- In the court of King Dom Pedro / Teixeira de Sousa -- Coming home / Théo Ananissoh -- When a dog is worth nine children / Albert Taïeb -- In this goddamned messed-up land / Sylvie Kandé -- The concert / Syl Cheney-Coker -- Lice / Ama Ata Aidoo -- God and his medicine-men / Tanure Ojaide -- Exile / Kanchana Ugbabe -- A prayer from the living / Ben Okri -- The big swallow / Taban Lo Liyong -- Moneyman / Peter Nazareth -- Minutes of glory / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Breaking loose / M.G. Vassanji -- Letter to my sisters / Fatmata Conteth -- The affair / Nuruddin Farah -- The Dasbiou mystery / Abdourahman Waberi -- He has come back / Idris Youssouf Elmi -- If only the Gauls / Francis Bebey -- The ceremony / Emmanuel Dongala -- Kala who dreams of going to the sea / Edouard J. Maunick -- Dolorosa / Michèle Rakotoson -- The revolt of the vowels / Aboubacar Ben Saïd Salim -- Rosita, until death / Luís Bernardo Honwana -- Celina's banquet / Lília Momplé -- The Russian princess / Mia Couto -- The day they arrested Father Christmas / José Eduardo Agualusa -- Independence Day / Yvonne Vera -- A pineapple incident / Musaemura Zimunya -- Blood feuds / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- The changing of the season / Peter Clarke -- Sweetness / Sheila Roberts -- Poor old Joe / Hennie Aucamp -- The WHITES ONLY bench / Ivan Vladislavić -- Relatives / Chris van Wyk.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-289
- ISBN
- 0330485407
- 0330396307 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 44484973
- Title
- The Picador book of African stories / edited by Stephen Gray.
- Imprint
- London : Picador, 2000.
- Language
- Translated from various languages.
- Added Author
- Gray, Stephen, 1941-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-289