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Transit : A Novel / Abdourahman A. Waberi ; translated by David Ball and Nicole Ball.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 1965- Waberi.
- Series:
- Global African voices.
- Global African voices
- Standardized Title:
- Transit. English
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police, is there too-arrested earlier as a political suspect. An embassy official mistakes Bashir for Harbi's son, and as Harbi does not deny it, both will be exiled to France, Alice's home country. This brilliantly shrewd and cynical universal chronicle of war and exile, translated into English for the
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Transit A Novel; Prologue; 1: Bashir Binladen; 2: Abdo-Julien; 3: Bashir Binladen; 4: Abdo-Julien; 5: Bashir Binladen; 6: Abdo-Julien; 7: Bashir Binladen; 8: Abdo-Julien; 9: Bashir Binladen; 10: Abdo-Julien; 11: Bashir Binladen; 12: Alice; 13: Bashir Binladen; 14: Abdo-Julien; 15: Bashir Binladen; 16: Awaleh; 17: Abdo-Julien; 18: Bashir Binladen; 19: Abdo-Julien; 20: Alice; 21: Abdo-Julien; 22: Bashir Binladen; 23: Alice; 24: Awaleh; 25: Bashir Binladen; 26: Alice; 27: Abdo-Julien; 28: Awaleh; 29: Bashir Binladen
- 30: Abdo-Julien31: Alice; 32: Abdo-Julien; 33: Awaleh; 34: Bashir Binladen; 35: Alice; 36: Bashir Binladen; 37: Abdo-Julien; 38: Alice; 39: Bashir Binladen; Glossary
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-24204-0
- 9786613813169
- 0-253-00693-7
- OCLC:
- 808341404
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