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<p><p>The 10 winning stories accompanied by stories from the former African Booker prizewinners.<p></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. <P>As exhibited in this collection, the Caine Prize, founded in 1999 in honor of the late Sir Michael Caine's work to popularize African writing in English, has spotlighted some exceptional writing; each prize-winning short story included here (the Caine is also known as the African Booker; as such, African winners of the Booker prize also appear) examines and explodes stereotypes about Africa and its literature. Characters reveal dignity and doubt in extraordinary situations, including a grandmother who abandons her frail husband in order to carry her grandchildren to safety in Nadine Gordimer's powerful "The Ultimate Safari." J. M. Coetzee's "Nietverloren" examines the changing face of Africa through the demise of a small family farm. Binyavanga Wainaina's "Discovering Home," meanwhile, contrasts a young man's year at home in Kenya after several years of cosmopolitan Cape Town life. Despite a rich diversity of style and subject matter, each story, as described in Ben Okri's introduction, "reveals what hides in people," offering intima
Who reads Ten Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- UnOkri, Ben
- Publisher
- New Internationalist Publications Ltd
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781906523244
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities