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  1. Say you're one of them
    Author: Akpan, Uwem
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Little, Brown, New York [u.a.]

    Location:
    Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Bibliothek
    Signature:
    Ff III 863
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    Signature:
    88.579.56
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
    Signature:
    JF4 1816 001
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    No inter-library loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780316113786; 0316113786
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Englisch; Kurzgeschichte
    Scope: 358 S., Kt., 22 cm
    Notes:

    Enth.: An ex-mas feast. Fattening for Gabon. What language is that?. Luxurious hearses. My parents' bedroom
  2. New York, my village
    a novel
    Author: Akpan, Uwem
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  W. W. Norton & Company, New York

    "A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition-both buoyant comedy and devastating satire-by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal... more

    Location:
    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    "A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition-both buoyant comedy and devastating satire-by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while learning the ins and outs of publishing. But while his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to the industry's colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly, boorish and hostile neighbors, and-beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism-a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Haunted by the devasting darkness of civil war and searingly observant about the myriad ways that tribalism defines life everywhere from the villages of Africa to the villages within New York City, New York, My Village is nevertheless full of heart, hilarity, and hope"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780393881424
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Nigerians; Publishers and publishing; Africans; African diaspora; Satire; Satirical literature
    Scope: pages cm
  3. Say you're one of them
    Author: Akpan, Uwem
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Little, Brown and Co, New York

    This singular collection of five stories takes the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa more

     

    This singular collection of five stories takes the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780316113786; 0316086363; 9780316086363; 0316086371; 9780316086370
    Edition: 1st ed
    Series: Oprah's book club
    Subjects: Children; Short stories, Nigerian; War victims; Nigerian fiction; Enfants - Afrique - Romans, nouvelles, etc; Children; Englisch; Kind; Kurzgeschichte; short stories; Short stories; Fiction; Short stories; Short stories; Nouvelles
    Scope: 358 pages, map, 22 cm
    Notes:

    An ex-mas feast -- Fattening for Gabon -- What language is that? -- Luxurious hearses -- My parents' bedroom.