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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 823.92 EAN: 9780316113786 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0316113786 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: June 09, 2008 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Studio: Little, Brown and Company Editorial Review: Product Description: Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. (2008) Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Joyce meets Flannery O'Connor meets Chinua Achebe?You can read other Amazon reviewers and the synopsis from the Washington Post here for an overview of the themes and their author. What no other previous entry has conveyed is the power of Akpan's language. He rarely pauses from dialogue or moving the story along often intricate lines, so when he does notice the landscape, it's for a telling detail. These scenes allow the narrative to "catch its breath" and to pause for dramatic effect. Since most of the stories included here rush along often into ... Read More Rating:  - Electrifying and HarrowingUwem Akpan has created an astonishing collection of five short stories; two of them are over 100 pages and can easily be termed novellas. Each employs a different tone, but all of them have one thing in common: they focus on young children and how they're faring in the endless conflicts that define many countries in Africa. The strongest of the stories, I believe, is My Parent's Bedroom, written in first person from a Rwandan girl who is the child of a Tutsi mother and a Hutu father. ... Read More Rating:  - Good ContributionThis collection of stories introduces the horrors of the wars in Africa to a public largely ignorant of the details. The most moving was In My Parents Bedroom, in which the people come alive in a vivid and terrifying manner. I found most of the others a bit too heady and felt they could have had more impact. Rating: - May the children's voices be heard!"Say You're One of Them" is a powerful collection of five short stories written by a Jesuit priest, Nigerian-born Uwem Akpan, who is currently a seminary teacher in Zimbabwe. The five stories contained within this book are all narrated by children, and it is a credit to Akpan that he is able to tell us these incredibly poignant and heartwrenching stories through the points of views of children, and to be able to so in an authentic manner. Among the stories that really affected me emotionally ... Read More Rating: - Say You Are One Of ThemI was attracted to this book after hearing an interview on NPR with the author. The interviewer mentioned that it was written in the voice of the children, as children. I was not disappointed. Here we see a child's eye view of some of the horrific political situations in Africa without the politics. It is written from the perspective of those who remain innocent in a world that is not innocent, even when they are swept up in the horrors themselves and become part of it. |
