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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787235203321

Titolo

A memory this size and other stories : the Caine Prize for African writing 2013

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Johannesburg, South Africa : , : New Internationalist : , : Jacana, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-78026-120-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

823.01089609051

Soggetti

Short stories, African (English)

Africa Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Introduction --  Caine Prize 2013 " Shortlisted Stories --  Miracle --  Foreign Aid --  The Whispering Trees --  Bayan Layi --  America --  The Caine Prize "African Writers" Workshop Stories 2013 --  Watchdog Games --  Red --  Howl --  The Book of Remembered Things --  A Memory This Size --  The Red Door --  Stuck --  Clapping Hands for a Smiling Crocodile --  The Strange Dance of the Calabash --  Chameleons with Megapixel Skins --  Blood Guilt --  Chief Mourner --  Rules.

Sommario/riassunto

The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. It has helped launch the careers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun Afolabi, Leila Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, Binyavanga Wainaina, and many others. The 2013 collection includes the five shortlisted stories and the stories written at the Caine Prize Writers' Workshop.