As The Crow Flies - Tadjo, Veronique
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From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo's evocative collection of short stories. Navigating between the interconnected lives of her characters, Tadjo flies across the world to tell the tales of those in search of the truth. Writing with exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo weaves a rich tapestry of tales full of nameless and faceless characters as they tell their stories. Parting and return, losing and gaining, suffering and healing., As the Crow Flies is a lyrical exploration of the human heart. 'A mosaic of 20th-century life.' Guardian…mehr

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From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo's evocative collection of short stories. Navigating between the interconnected lives of her characters, Tadjo flies across the world to tell the tales of those in search of the truth. Writing with exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo weaves a rich tapestry of tales full of nameless and faceless characters as they tell their stories. Parting and return, losing and gaining, suffering and healing., As the Crow Flies is a lyrical exploration of the human heart. 'A mosaic of 20th-century life.' Guardian
Autorenporträt
Véronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, academic, and illustrator. She was born in Paris in 1955 and brought up in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She completed her doctoral thesis in African American Civilization at the University of Paris. Tadjo has lived in several countries such as Lagos, Mexico City, London, Nairobi, and fourteen years in Johannesburg where she headed the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is now based between London and Abidjan. You can find out more at veroniquetadjo.com or follow her on Twitter at @VTadjo. Translated from French by Wangui wa Goro. Wangui wa Goro is a social critic, academic, writer, and translator born in 1961. She is responsible for the translation of numerous works by Ngugi wa Thiong'o including Matigari and the Njamba Nene series. She is currently based in the UK and works as Editor at the African Development Bank.