Granta 48 Africa (Granta (Viking))

by Bill Buford
Granta 48 Africa (Granta (Viking))  
published 1994 by Penguin Books
binding Paperback
isbn 0140140840   (isbn13: 9780140140842)
date added
02-17-07



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Read in January, 1993
Not only did Bill Buford write a fantastic book in Among The Thugs, but he also edited one of my favorite issues of Granta.

Africa is a very complex continent to discuss, and it seemed to be well represented in this anthology of short essays and stories. What I most remember is that there is a story of an American ex-pat that is in Liberia during the onset of civil war. Nothing I read portrays how terrifying and confusing that time can be as well as she had in that essay. I highly recomm...more
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