Addis Ababa Noir (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mengiste, Maaza

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It's a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory. It is a heady mix. It can also be disorienting, and it is in this space that the stories of Addis Ababa Noir reside . . . These are not gentle stories. They cross into forbidden territories and traverse the damaged terrain of the human heart. The characters in these pages are complicated, worthy of our judgment as much as they somehow manage to elude it. The writers have each discovered their own ways to get us to lean in while forcing us to grit our teeth as we draw closer . . . Despite the varied and distinct voices in these pages, no single book can contain all of the wonderful, intriguing, vexing complexities of Addis Ababa. But what you will read are stories by some of Ethiopia's most talented writers living in the country and abroad. Each of them considers the many ways that myth and truth and a country's dark edges come together to create something wholly original-and unsettling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cassava Republic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913175207
• Artikelnr.: 61335160

Autorenporträt

Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist who was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Creative Capital. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the ten best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other publications. Her work can be found in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other places. She was a writer on the documentary projects Girl Rising and The Invisible City: Kakuma. Her second novel, The Shadow King, was published in September 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

11 Introduction
PART I: PAST HAUNTINGS
17 Kind Stranger
29 A Double-Edged Inheritance
47 Ostrich
66 Dust, Ash, Flight
PART II: TRANSLATIONS OF GRIEF
91 Father Bread
105 The Blue Shadow
120 A Night in Bela Sefer
PART III: MADNESS DESCENDS
137 Insomnia
153 Of the Poet and the Café
174 Under the Minibus Ceiling
183 Of Buns and Howls
PART IV: POLICE AND THIEVES
207 Kebele ID
220 None of Your Business
228 Agony of the Congested Heart
244 About the Contributors