Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City

by	Jonny Steinberg

SKU: 9780099524229 Categories: Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities ; multicultural studies, Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE Tags: african history, Billie Holiday, children of men, city of stories, Danny Dorling, dark matter, exit west, gangland non-fiction, gangster non-fiction, gary taubes, genealogy non-fiction, how to survive a plague, hunger games, immigrant bride, islamic books for women, labours civil wars, Laurie Penny, milly dowler, next civil war, nonfiction, On Tyranny, post apocalyptic non-fiction, race, South Africa, The Beauty Myth, the circle, the emigrants sebald, The Handmaid's Tale, the power naomi alderman, the power of now, underground railroad, venice non-fiction

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On Park Hill Avenue in New York City, almost everyone is Liberian. Many fled here, survivors of a brutal civil war that claimed the lives of one in fourteen Liberians. But even an ocean away, the baggage of the past is difficult to leave behind. Steinberg spent two years in this close-knit neighbourhood, tracing the tensions between two men, Rufus and Jacob, with very different pasts but goals which were locked into a collision course. As national dramas played out on a small stage thousands of miles from home, Steinberg takes up a remarkable story of a horrific and heart-wrenching war, and of the quest to be human in a world losing its humanity.

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Weight	0.283 kg
Dimensions	2.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by	Jonny Steinberg
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	304
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	2012-1-5
Imprint	Vintage
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0099524228
About The Author	Jonny Steinberg was born and bred in South Africa. He is the author of critically acclaimed Three Letter Plague, published by Vintage, and Midlands and The Number, which both won South Africa's premier non-fiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. Steinberg was educated at Wits University in Johannesburg, and at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked as a journalist on a national daily, written scripts for television drama, and has been a consultant to the South African government on criminal justice policy.
	Jonny Steinberg has come to define South African narrative non-fiction; now, in Little Liberia, he applies his prodigious talents globally. He is at the height of his powers, singular in his ability to tell a big story through vivid detail and unforgettable characters. He has one of the sharpest intellects of his generation; here he proves, once more, that he is also a masterful storyteller.
Other text	Extraordinary, stylistically varied mix of reportage, history and biography, which is revealing about the author as well as about his subjects, and about the vagaries of memory and motive… Maps, photographs, notes, a list of further reading, as well as a thorough index, all provide useful support for his skilled and compassionate chronicle

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