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In the Company of Men (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781635420951)
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V駻onique Tadjo
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xWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE Harper's Bazaar Best Book of the Year
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Ms. Magazine Best Feminist Book of the Year
Words Without Borders: Best Translated Book of the Year Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity's place in the world. Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor the medical team's treatments could cure. Compounding the family's grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys' father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival. In a series of moving snapshots, V駻onique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned boy cast out of his village for fear of infection. And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future. Acutely relevant to our times in light of the coronavirus pandemic, In the Company of Men explores critical questions about how we cope with a global crisis and how we can combat fear and prejudice.
Author: V駻onique Tadjo
ISBN-10: 1635420954
ISBN-13: 9781635420951
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/19/2020
Foreword 12/26/2020
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 34
Shelf Awareness 02/23/2021
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Ms. Magazine Best Feminist Book of the Year
Words Without Borders: Best Translated Book of the Year Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity's place in the world. Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor the medical team's treatments could cure. Compounding the family's grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys' father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival. In a series of moving snapshots, V駻onique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned boy cast out of his village for fear of infection. And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future. Acutely relevant to our times in light of the coronavirus pandemic, In the Company of Men explores critical questions about how we cope with a global crisis and how we can combat fear and prejudice.
Author: V駻onique Tadjo
ISBN-10: 1635420954
ISBN-13: 9781635420951
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/19/2020
Foreword 12/26/2020
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 34
Shelf Awareness 02/23/2021
By V駻onique Tadjo
xV駻onique Tadjo is a poet, novelist, academic, and artist from Ce d'Ivoire. She earned a doctorate in Black American Literature and Civilization from the Sorbonne, Paris IV, and went to the United States as a Fulbright scholar at Howard University in Washington, DC. She headed the French Department of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg until 2015. Her books have been translated into several languages, from The Blind Kingdom (1991) to The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda (2001) and Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice (2005), which was awarded the Grand Prix de Litt駻ature d'Afrique Noire in 2005.
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