false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175259717m/497855.jpg 497855 1 The characters in these short stories - including the snake catcher who surrounds his lady's house with snakes and the man who scalds his wife with boiling water for fear that she is a witch - are all caught up in a landscape defined only by its contradictions. 485998 7 1990 Voices Made Night (African Writers Series) total:3|5:1|4:1|3:0|2:1|1:0| 3 11 4 1 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 05:32:21 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 20:39:39 -0700 2009
Noted with interest for those keeping track of the ongoing discussion about fiction in translation: this came out in 1990 and the translator's name, David Brookshaw, is on neither the front nor back cover. ]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 17 02:55:10 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 02:55:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 08:09:22 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 08:09:22 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Dec 07 17:45:45 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 11:07:56 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=497855