There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
(Sprache: Englisch)
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-70. He has always maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, in a long-awaited memoir, he explores his...
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch
25.25 €
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „There Was a Country “
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-70. He has always maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, in a long-awaited memoir, he explores his personal experiences and reflections on one of modern Africa's defining events. 'Chinua Achebe's history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer's brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature' Nadine Gordimer
Klappentext zu „There Was a Country “
Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country is his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970. It became infamous around the world for its impact on the Biafrans, who were starved to death by the Nigerian government in one of the twentieth century's greatest humanitarian disasters.Caught up in the atrocities were Chinua Achebe and his young family. Achebe, already a world-renowned novelist, served his Biafran homeland as a roving cultural ambassador, witnessing the war's full horror first-hand. Immediately after the war, he took an academic post in the United States, and for over forty years he has maintained a considered silence on those terrible years, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Now, years in the making, comes his toweringreckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful experiences, both as he lived it and he has now come to understand it.
Marrying history and memoir, with the author's poetry woven throughout, There Was a Country is a distillation of vivid observation and considered research and reflection. It relates Nigeria's birth pangs in the context of Achebe's own development as a man and a writer, and examines the role of the artist in times of war.
Autoren-Porträt von Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe, geboren 1930 in Ogidi/Nigeria, studierte zunächst Medizin, dann Literatur, Geschichte und Religion an der Universität von Ibadan/Nigeria. Leiter des nigerianischen Rundfunks. Lehrtätigkeiten an verschiedenen Universitäten von Nigeria sowie der Universität von Massachusetts/Amhurst und Connecticut. Er leitete den Fachbereich für Literatur an der Universität von Nsukka/Nigeria und erhielt 2002 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Chinua Achebe verstarb 2013.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chinua Achebe
- 2012, 352 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 3,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 1846145767
- ISBN-13: 9781846145766
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „There Was a Country “
Chinua Achebe's history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer's brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature -- Nadine Gordimer Part-history, part-memoir, [Achebe's] moving account of the war is laced with anger, but there is also an abiding tone of regret for what Nigeria might have been without conflict and mismanagement Sunday Times A blend of historical overview, personal memoir and political manifesto ... fascinating Evening Standard Long-awaited ... urgently needed France 24 No writer is better placed than Chinua Achebe to tell the story of the Nigerian Biafran war from a cultural and political perspective ... Achebe relays [the war's] horrors ... with stoic brevity; his strongest expressions are his poems, ... scattered between chapters, offering affecting interludes ... [The book] makes you pine for the likes of Achebe to govern ... We have in There Was a Country an elegy from a master storyteller who has witnessed the undulating fortunes of a nation -- Noo Saro-Wiwa Guardian
Kommentar zu "There Was a Country"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „There Was a Country“
Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "There Was a Country".
Kommentar verfassen