HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Akpan, Uwem, author.     Subjects     Nigerians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.     Publishers and publishing -- Fiction.     Africans -- United States -- Fiction.     African diaspora -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Akpan, Uwem, author.       by title:      New York, my village...         MARC Display

New York, my village : a novel / Uwem Akpan. by Akpan, Uwem, author. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022] Subjects Nigerians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.   Publishers and publishing -- Fiction.   Africans -- United States -- Fiction.   African diaspora -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780393881424 (hardcover) 0393881423 (hardcover) Description:  404 pages : maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Fiction Akpan Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Fiction Akpan Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Fiction Akpan Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.