4 Great Tales of Africa
Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa sang the loss of paradise, the colonials’ dignity and shame, the miracle and plight of the people and of the land. Since then, the history has been one of accelerating cycles of horror and dreams of renewal. Here four writers intimately connected to Africa bring us into the immediacy and myth, the daily wonder and terror, of one of the most innocent and corrupted places on the earth.

Bill Barich
Houseboys
He was possessed by visions, and what he saw accounted for the enormity of his sadness.

Lisa Cupolo
Bread
We talk a lot with the children but not about the terror of what has killed so many of their family members.

Saidiya Hartman
A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route
2007 Winner

Jeanie Kortum
Stones
My body feels as though it’s not quite mine.

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