The Village of Waiting
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- George Packer
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- United States
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780374527808
- ISBN-10
- 0374527806
- Vendor: Mia Karts
The Village of Waiting
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ISBN: 0374527806
Author: Packer, George
Condition: New
Back in print, the "masterful" (The New York Times Book Review) account of an American in West AfricaNow restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople-peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on "development," find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.
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