A Moonless, Starless Sky
Autor Alexis Okeowoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2018
WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD
"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316382922
ISBN-10: 0316382922
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 201 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0316382922
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 201 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Notă biografică
Alexis Okeowo is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a fellow at New America. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Financial Times, Time, and Fortune, among many other publications. The daughter of immigrant parents, Okeowo grew up in Alabama and attended Princeton University. She was based in Lagos, Nigeria, from 2012 to 2015, and now lives in Brooklyn.
Recenzii
"Finally, finally,finally--a humane, skillful storyteller with sound reporting instincts hasdug into the middle of the stories we think we've already heard out of Africa.Alexis Okeowo can write prose as arresting as Ryszard Kapuscinski's, she's gotKatherine Boo's big heart, but she has her own fresh way of approaching thework, one that is terribly overdue. Absolutely essential reading, period."—Alexandra Fuller, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Quiet Until the Thaw
"From anabolitionist who once owned a slave to women basketball players in a war zone,Alexis Okeowo has an alert and thoughtful eye for the unexpected. The portraitsand voices she brings us from Africa are so vivid that the reader can easilyforget the determination and bravery it must have taken to gather them in theseunhappy corners of the continent."—Adam Hochschild, New York Times bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts
"In A Moonless,Starless Sky, Alexis Okeowo has wandered as a reporter into some ofAfrica's most difficult and dangerous corners and delivered somethingremarkable: real characters, women and men, fully rendered."—Howard W. French, author of Everything Under the Heavens
"Spectacular reporting.Full of fresh, unexpected detail. If you want to get an immediate sense of thelives, both quotidian and extraordinary, of Africans in some of the continent'smost troubled countries, read Alexis Okeowo's book."—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days
"Remarkable.... Okeowo writes with beauty and grace....Refreshingly, she does not give in to easy answers.... Clear-eyed, lyrical,observant, and compassionate--reportage at its finest."—Kirkus (starred review)
"Alexis Okeowo hasgone to the hardest continent and come away with a series of tales about thefight against fanaticism and despair. The result is a deeply sensitive portraitof modern Africa and a microscope on the human condition in the most difficult circumstances."—Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Forever War
"Alexis Okeowo'sstartling and brilliant account of fierce horrors and tender hopes is one ofthe best records I have ever read of a world that has been made and remade timeand again out of struggle and faith. Okeowo is just the kind of reporter weneed to hear from when it comes to Africa, the 'new' old world: truthful,accurate, deep."—Hilton Als, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of White Girls
"Evocative and affecting.... Okeowo's in-depth,perceptive reporting gives a voice to ... extraordinarily courageous--andresilient--women and men."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A Moonless, Starless Sky is a captivating look at the on-the-ground effects ofextremist groups and the people who live their lives in spite of them."—Booklist
"Okeowo's compelling prose is lean butempathetic, reportorial and personal both in an individual and cultural sense;her own status as a biological African born in America who straddles twocontinents and two sensibilities--at minimum--infuses this work with a realurgency.... Okeowo's message to readers, and the lesson she unsentimentallygleans for herself, is that even under a forbidding sky--one without theradiance of moon or stars-there is always enough light to navigate out of thedarkness toward a better world."—Ms. Magazine
"Through four distinct stories, she shares the stories ofcitizens as they resist groups like Lord's Resistance Army and Boko Haram,while also attempting to bravely move forward with their personal lives. Thereporting is expert and empathetic, and Okeowo illuminates the people beyondthe headlines."—W magazine
"AlexisOkeowo humanizes the lives behind the headlines, transforming oftenone-dimensional news stories from the African continent into narratives ofendurance and survival.... These are narratives of everyday people confrontingunimaginable challenges where one's very existence becomes an act ofresistance. Okeowo's reporting demonstrates the multiplicity of humanresilience and regeneration in impossible times. In a time when our own leadersconflate poverty with personal character, we can think of no more importantbook. The individuals showcased in A Moonless, Starless Sky are among the best andbrightest anywhere in the world."—Prize citation for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award
"From anabolitionist who once owned a slave to women basketball players in a war zone,Alexis Okeowo has an alert and thoughtful eye for the unexpected. The portraitsand voices she brings us from Africa are so vivid that the reader can easilyforget the determination and bravery it must have taken to gather them in theseunhappy corners of the continent."—Adam Hochschild, New York Times bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts
"In A Moonless,Starless Sky, Alexis Okeowo has wandered as a reporter into some ofAfrica's most difficult and dangerous corners and delivered somethingremarkable: real characters, women and men, fully rendered."—Howard W. French, author of Everything Under the Heavens
"Spectacular reporting.Full of fresh, unexpected detail. If you want to get an immediate sense of thelives, both quotidian and extraordinary, of Africans in some of the continent'smost troubled countries, read Alexis Okeowo's book."—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days
"Remarkable.... Okeowo writes with beauty and grace....Refreshingly, she does not give in to easy answers.... Clear-eyed, lyrical,observant, and compassionate--reportage at its finest."—Kirkus (starred review)
"Alexis Okeowo hasgone to the hardest continent and come away with a series of tales about thefight against fanaticism and despair. The result is a deeply sensitive portraitof modern Africa and a microscope on the human condition in the most difficult circumstances."—Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Forever War
"Alexis Okeowo'sstartling and brilliant account of fierce horrors and tender hopes is one ofthe best records I have ever read of a world that has been made and remade timeand again out of struggle and faith. Okeowo is just the kind of reporter weneed to hear from when it comes to Africa, the 'new' old world: truthful,accurate, deep."—Hilton Als, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of White Girls
"Evocative and affecting.... Okeowo's in-depth,perceptive reporting gives a voice to ... extraordinarily courageous--andresilient--women and men."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A Moonless, Starless Sky is a captivating look at the on-the-ground effects ofextremist groups and the people who live their lives in spite of them."—Booklist
"Okeowo's compelling prose is lean butempathetic, reportorial and personal both in an individual and cultural sense;her own status as a biological African born in America who straddles twocontinents and two sensibilities--at minimum--infuses this work with a realurgency.... Okeowo's message to readers, and the lesson she unsentimentallygleans for herself, is that even under a forbidding sky--one without theradiance of moon or stars-there is always enough light to navigate out of thedarkness toward a better world."—Ms. Magazine
"Through four distinct stories, she shares the stories ofcitizens as they resist groups like Lord's Resistance Army and Boko Haram,while also attempting to bravely move forward with their personal lives. Thereporting is expert and empathetic, and Okeowo illuminates the people beyondthe headlines."—W magazine
"AlexisOkeowo humanizes the lives behind the headlines, transforming oftenone-dimensional news stories from the African continent into narratives ofendurance and survival.... These are narratives of everyday people confrontingunimaginable challenges where one's very existence becomes an act ofresistance. Okeowo's reporting demonstrates the multiplicity of humanresilience and regeneration in impossible times. In a time when our own leadersconflate poverty with personal character, we can think of no more importantbook. The individuals showcased in A Moonless, Starless Sky are among the best andbrightest anywhere in the world."—Prize citation for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award
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'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
WINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Award
In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.
In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary - lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.
'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
WINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Award
In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.
In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary - lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.