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Transit (Global African Voices)

Paperback – July 30, 2012
by Waberi, Abdourahman A.
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ISBN-13: 9780253006899 ISBN-10: 0253006899
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Binding
Paperback
Published
July 30, 2012
Weight
0.5 lbs
Dimensions
21.60×1.30×14.00 cm

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Transit (Global African Voices) by Waberi, Abdourahman A.. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780253006899.

Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police, is there too—arrested earlier as a political suspect. An embassy official mistakes Bashir for Harbis son, and as Harbi does not deny it, both will be exiled to France, Alices home country. This brilliantly shrewd and cynical universal chronicle of war and exile, translated into English for the first time, amounts to a lyrical and reflective history of Djibouti and its tortuous politics, crippled economy, and devastated moral landscape.