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New York, my village : a novel / Uwem Akpan.
"A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition-both buoyant comedy and devastating satire-by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while learning the ins and outs of publishing. But while his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to the industry's colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly, boorish and hostile neighbors, and-beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism-a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Haunted by the devasting darkness of civil war and searingly observant about the myriad ways that tribalism defines life everywhere from the villages of Africa to the villages within New York City, New York, My Village is nevertheless full of heart, hilarity, and hope"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393881424
- ISBN: 0393881423
- Physical Description: 404 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Nigerians > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Publishers and publishing > Fiction. Africans > United States > Fiction. African diaspora > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Satire. Satirical literature. |
Available copies
- 15 of 15 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Abington Community Library | FICTION AKPAN (Text) | 50687011751958 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albright Memorial Library | FICTION AKPAN (Text) | 50686016107836 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | F AKP (Text) | 33240004940519 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Boone Area Library | AKP (Text) | 33249024509576 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults AKP Fiction (Text) | 34001001403706 | Adult Area | Available | - |
| Exeter Community Library | AKP (Text) | 33249025313523 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Glatfelter Memorial Library | Adults AKP Fiction (Text) | 34216000926354 | Adult Area | Available | - |
| Highland Community Library | F AKP (Text) | 35610000983697 | HGHM Fiction | Available | - |
| Lower Macungie Library | FIC AKP (Text) | 33400001533218 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Reading Public Library RPL - Main | Fiction Akpan (Text) | 33223008727512 | Fiction | Available | - |
