African Visas - Maria Thoma

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- African Visas

- A Novella and Stories

- Auteur: Maria Thomas
- Gebonden versie, hardcover
- Uitgever: SOHO
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- From Library Journal:
- In the tradition of Dinesen and Markham, Thomas writes about adventurous women in Africa, Ethiopia in particular. "Jiru road," the novella in this collection, is a first-person account of Sarah's life in the Peace Corps.
- Sarah, or shoulders as she comes to be called, is a young woman who wants "to avoid conscription into American life." Instead, she helps build a road to nowhere in the Horn of Africa, a road that helps the people of her village stave off hunger for a while longer.
- Thomas has an ear for dialog and a facility for capturing that sense of living between two worlds: life in a small African village, and life back in the United States.
- The stories also capture the wonderful feeling of Africa: the beauty--the villages with their conical roofs, the men with their lovely almond eyes--along with the horror: lepers and mangy dogs, and a continent on the verge of starvation.
- This book is being published posthumously; Thomas died on a relief mission to Ethiopia in 1988.
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