Gaile Parkin

Broschiertes Buch

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Beschreibung

Angel Tungaraza--mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets--is a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her in Kigali.

Autor

Gaile Parkin was born and raised in Zambia and studied at universities in South Africa and England. She has lived in many different parts of Africa, including Rwanda, where Baking Cakes in Kigali is set. She spent two years in Rwanda as a VSO volunteer at the new university doing a wide range of work: teaching, mentoring, writing learning materials, working with the campus clinic to counsel students with HIV/AIDS, and doing gender advocacy and empowerment work. Evenings and weekends, she counselled women and girls who were survivors. Many of the stories told by the characters in Baking Cakes for Kigali are based on or inspired by stories Parkin was told herself. She is currently a freelance consultant in the fields of education, gender, and HIV/AIDS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780385343442
• ISBN-10: 0385343442
• Artikelnr.: 29920161