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The falling sky : words of a Yanomami shaman
The 10th anniversary edition
A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation
A New Scientist Best Book of the Year
A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year
\"A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one's personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.\"
—Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review
\"The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.\"
—Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian
\"A literary treasure…a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.\"
—New Scientist
A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon.
A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples' rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.
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Blue White Red
\"Mabanckou dazzles with technical dexterity and emotional depth\" in his debut novel, winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported.
Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol.
Praise for Alain Mabanckou and Blue White Red
\"Mabanckou counts as one of the most successful voices of young African literature.\" — Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin
\"The African Beckett.\" — The Economist
\" Blue White Red stands at the beginning of the author's remarkable and multifaceted career as a novelist, essayist and poet . . . this debut novel shows much of his style and substance in remarkable ways . . . Dundy's translation is excellent.\" — Africa Book Club
\"Mabanckou's provocative novel probes the many facets of the 'migration adventure.'\" — Booklist
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Blue White Red
This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol.
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TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Alain Mabanckouʹs writing is like a Chinese line drawing. His economy of words is a brushstroke that reveals a subjectʹs inner and outward character and an aching longing for place. Moki is a village hero inBlue White Redbecause he becomes a ʺParisian,ʺ the title conferred on those who ʺmake itʺ in Paris. His presence there transforms a village father, who now holds forth in the properFrench Frenchof Guy de Maupassant, as befits a man whose son is in the country ofDigol. Moki chastises his wannabes for speakingin Frenchbut notFrenchand cautions those
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The Falling Sky
Anthropologist Bruce Albert captures the poetic voice of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, in this unique reading experience--a coming-of-age story, historical account, and shamanic philosophy, but most of all an impassioned plea to respect native rights and preserve the Amazon rainforest.
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