New York, my village : a novel /
Akpan, Uwem
New York, my village : a novel / Uwem Akpan - 406 p. : 21 cm
Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while learning the ins and outs of publishing. But while his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to the industry's colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly, boorish and hostile neighbors, and-beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism-a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Haunted by the devasting darkness of civil war and searingly observant about the myriad ways that tribalism defines life everywhere from the villages of Africa to the villages within New York City, New York, My Village is nevertheless full of heart, hilarity, and hope.
English
978132435893
2021022https://bsma.kohalatino.info:8080opac-addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=234361&z3950=1&frameworkcode=&breedingid=388147#378
Nigerians--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Publishers and publishing--Fiction
Africans--United States--Fiction
African diaspora--Fiction
Satire
FIC AKP
New York, my village : a novel / Uwem Akpan - 406 p. : 21 cm
Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while learning the ins and outs of publishing. But while his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to the industry's colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly, boorish and hostile neighbors, and-beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism-a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Haunted by the devasting darkness of civil war and searingly observant about the myriad ways that tribalism defines life everywhere from the villages of Africa to the villages within New York City, New York, My Village is nevertheless full of heart, hilarity, and hope.
English
978132435893
2021022https://bsma.kohalatino.info:8080opac-addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=234361&z3950=1&frameworkcode=&breedingid=388147#378
Nigerians--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Publishers and publishing--Fiction
Africans--United States--Fiction
African diaspora--Fiction
Satire
FIC AKP
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