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Book Title
Scrabble : a Chadian Childhood
Publication Name
Scrabble
Title
Scrabble
Subtitle
A Chadian Childhood
Author
Michaël Ferrier
Translator
Martin Munro
Contributor
Martin Munro (Translated by)
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9781802076868
ISBN
9781802076868
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Genre
Literary Collections
Release Date
01/09/2022
Release Year
2022
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Item Height
0.3in
Item Length
9in
Series
World Writing in French: New Archipelagoes
Publication Year
2022
Topic
European / French, African
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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"But when I close my eyes, I first fall as if drowning into the silty waters of the Chari River, which traces the border between Chad and Cameroon, and into which so many men, women and even children were thrown, sometimes still alive, their hands knotted behind their backs, or tied up in a shoulder bag. I sink with them towards the sand and the clay, down amidst the green and the brown, passing purple weeds, shards of pottery, and crocodile scales. My head is heavier than a cannonball and carries me toward the abyss: I dive into a bottomless bag where the letters collide or slip away, call out to or ignore each other, I bathe in an unlimited space free from the constraints of cycles and dates, and I enter into the time of childhood, which indeed has no concept of time. [...] all my memories take flight in the wind of the sands, the past flows in the river, plays out in the branches, explodes in the foliage. The past is all around me now - and I laugh when I say 'the past, ' because none of all this is past." Michaël Ferrier In 1979, two young boys play Scrabble in a hot, dusty district of N'Djamena, Chad, while around them war rages, apparently destroying all in its path: people, places, and memories. And yet, just as the boys take their letters from the depths of the pouch, so Michaël Ferrier draws from the darkness words and images that he reassembles into a beautiful and moving tribute to the city, its people, and the childhood that seemed to end there in those days of chaos and destruction but which he brings miraculously back to life in a defiant, poetic statement on the power of friendship, family, and memory.

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
1802076867
ISBN-13
9781802076868
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26057286013

Product Key Features

Book Title
Scrabble : a Chadian Childhood
Author
Michaël Ferrier
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / French, African
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
160 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pq2706
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes

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