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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 843.914 EAN: 9780435912031 ISBN: 0435912038 Label: Heinemann Manufacturer: Heinemann Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 106 Publication Date: March 27, 2001 Publisher: Heinemann Studio: Heinemann Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Indeed I too would have loved to write one of those serene stories with a beginning and an end. As you know only too well, it is never like that, though. Lives mingle, people tame one another and part. Destinies are lost. This groundbreaking novel represents a set of universal experiences which can be read as a mosaic of life in the 20th century. As The Crow Flies describes the way in which the text is written; Tadjo flies over different lives and experiences - as a crow does - occasionally swooping down on one small detail or character, moving between relationships in search of truth. Average Rating:
 Rating: - New Voice from AfricaWhile Véronique Tadjo is perhaps better known for her works for young people, she has also written an important journalistic account of the Rwandan genocide ("The Shadow of Imana", Heinemann, 2002). With "As the Crow Flies," this Côte d'Ivoire-born author enters the genre of experimental novel. Not quite poetry, not exactly myth, not particularly linear, this book explores the elliptical relationship between the narrator and a lover. The book opens with a warning in the prelude: "Indeed, ... Read More 
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