Work in progress and other stories.

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ISBN:

9781906523145

9781770097506

Publication Information:

Oxford : New Internationalist ; Sunnyside, South Africa : Jacana, 2009.

Physical Description:

179 pages ; 21 cm

General Note:

Short stories.

Contents:

The end of skill / You wreck her / Icebergs / Waiting / How Kamau wa Mwangi escaped into exile / Mansa / Ekow / Simple eceonomics / The sky above Nagala / Ravalushan / The sound of water / Work in progress / Half-man and the curse of the ancient buttocks / No windscreen wipers / Double wahala / Bomb of Biafra

Subject Term:

Short stories, African (English)

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Summary

Short stories from the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize - awarded to an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection includes the five shortlisted stories along with 12 stories written by the Caine Prize Writers' workshop. The Caine Prize is patronised by the four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soynika, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and J.M. Coetzee.