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The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, L... by Hartley, Aidan Paperback / softback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0802125859
- EAN
- 9780802125859
- Date of Publication
- 2016-12-13
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreig...
- Artist
- Hartley, Aidan
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802125859
ISBN-13
9780802125859
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221696643
Product Key Features
Book Title
Zanzibar Chest
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Africa / General, Personal Memoirs
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
A finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize A Publishers Weekly and Economist best book of the year " The Zanzibar Chest is a many-legged hybrid. In part it is a wrenching account of African horrors, particularly those of Somalia and Rwanda . . . [it] is also a loving, often evocative account of East Africa where the author grew up . . . An unassailable mix of irony, vainglory, passionate sympathy and despair." -- New York Times "An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent's psychic wracking since Michael Herr's Dispatches , and the best white writing from Africa in many, many years." --Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart "A masterpiece." -- Spectator (UK) "A brilliant portrait, fond but candid, of the 'hacks' who chase dramatic stories in exotic and scary places--'the good times, the friendship, intensity, fear, sense of purpose, the sheer escapism of it all'--but declines at all turns to lapse into sentimentality." -- Washington Post "A tale of furious adrenaline." -- Christian Science Monitor "Slam-bang adventure and shimmering poetry. It is hilarious, orgiastically bawdy, poignantly romantic, gory as war itself, and populated with a census-sized number of vivid personalities. All that--plus informative and dreadfully prophetic." -- Washington Times " The Zanzibar Chest is a stunning piece of work. It will reside permanently in my memory. No one should dare say the word Africa without reading it." --Jim Harrison "A lyrical, searing memoir. Out of the ashes of . . . misbegotten hopes, Hartley has fashioned a mesmerizing story of pain and loss." -- Newsweek "A startlingly refreshing perspective on the political, social, and cultural impact of British colonialism in Africa and Arabia . . . putting a contemporary face on historic colonialism with an accuracy and veracity seldom seen in Western critiques." -- Booklist "A profoundly moving masterpiece . . . This is much, much more than a book about war reporting. It is an extraordinary tapestry of friendships, love affairs, betrayals, and murders that finally come together to give us an intimate and epic portrait of Africa in the twentieth century." --Hossein Amini "Thrillingly charged with an undercurrent of passion." --Salon "A work of tremendous candor and vigor . . . a book that is impossible to forget." --Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man "An outrageously brave and anguished heart disgorging the never-inert legacies of colonialism." --Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Dewey Decimal
967/.00971241
Synopsis
Combining literary reportage, memoir, family history, and a quest to piece together a decades-old mystery, The Zanzibar Chest is a moving examination of colonialism and its consequences. In his final days, Aidan Hartley's father said to him, "We should have never come." Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family. From a great-great-grandfather who defended British settlements in nineteenth-century New Zealand, to his father, a colonial officer sent to Africa in the 1920s and who later returned to raise a family there--these were intrepid men who traveled to exotic lands to conquer, build, and bear witness. And there is Aidan, who becomes a journalist covering Africa in the 1990s, a decade marked by terror and genocide. After encountering the violence in Somalia, Uganda, and Rwanda, Aidan retreats to his family's house in Kenya where he discovers the Zanzibar chest his father left him. Intricately hand-carved, the chest contained the diaries of his father's best friend, Peter Davey, an Englishman who had died under obscure circumstances five decades before. With the papers as his guide, Hartley embarked on a journey not only to unlock the secrets of Davey's life, but his own.
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- r***d (273)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem in great condition 😁 SELLER communicated any time I had a question 😍 Good value 😊 packaged securely 🙂 Shipping said 7-14 days which is correct , would purchase again from rhis seller ... Thank You
- 6***t (479)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchasePurchasing form this company can at times be frustrating due to items never arriving, very low shipping time and the inability to track the items. But I gave them another chance and purchased many maps and books over the past few months and have received all of them. Last year, it was hit and miss. All items were in the condition as described. Packaging is minimal. The only downside is extremely slow shipping. I rate them a C+. Nothing to gloat about but eventually you will get what you wanted.