The Virgin of Flames: A Novel - Brossura

Abani, Chris

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ISBN 10: 014303877X ISBN 13: 9780143038771

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

Riassunto

A gritty novel set against the backdrop of East L.A. follows a struggling artist named Black on a journey of self-discovery that reveals important questions about poverty, ethnicity, and religion in modern-day America. By the author of the award-winning GraceLand. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione

Abani [is] a fluid, closely observant writer. (The Washington Post)

Abani’s intensely visual style—and his sense of humor—convert the stuff of hopelessness into the stuff of hope. (San Francisco Chronicle)

GraceLand amply demonstrates that Abani has the energy, ambition and compassion to create a novel that delineates and illuminates a complicated, dynamic, deeply fractured society. (Los Angeles Times)

Abani . . . has written an exhilarating novel, all the more astonishing for its hard-won grace and, yes, redemption. (The Village Voice)

In depicting how deeply external politics can affect internal thinking, GraceLand announces itself as a worthy heir to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Like that classic of Nigerian literature, it gives a multifaceted, human face to a culture struggling to find its own identity while living with somebody else’s. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

L'autore

Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Becoming Abigail, was born in Nigeria and has lived in London, New York, and Los Angeles. He is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 014303877X
• ISBN 13: 9780143038771
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304