Edem Awumey

Broschiertes Buch

Cotton Blues

Beschreibung

Edem Awumey takes us on a contemporary journey on the cotton road, from the African Savannah to the American South, from the luxurious salons of Berlin to the fields of Indian Rajasthan sprayed with glyphosate, from the valleys of Uzbekistan covered with white fibre to the spinning mills of Dhaka in Bangladesh.

Autor

Edem Awumey was born in Lomé, Togo. He is the author of five previous novels. Descent into Night, the English translation of Explication de la nuit (2013), won the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award for Translation in 2018. His other novels are Port-Melo (2006), which won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire; Les pieds sales (2009), which was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt in France; Rose déluge (2011); and Mina parmi les ombres (2018), which was translated into English as Mina Among the Shadows (2020). Dirty Feet (2011), the English translation of Les pieds sales, was selected for the Dublin Impac Award. Descent into Night and Mina Among the Shadows were translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Edem Awumey lives in Gatineau, Quebec.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 144mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781774151778
• ISBN-10: 1774151774
• Artikelnr.: 71922321