Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl
The Village of Waiting
Key Metrics
- George Packer
- Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl
- Paperback
- 9780374527808
- 8.4 X 5.4 X 0.9 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Back in print, the masterful (The New York Times Book Review) account of an American in West Africa
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavi� (the name means wait a little more) in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople--peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on development, find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.
Author Bio
George Packer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, and The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq.
Source: The Atlantic
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