Abdourahman A. Waberi, trans. from the French by David Ball and Nicole Ball. Indiana Univ., $17 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-253-00693-6
Steeped in both historical lore and the socio-political realities of the small ex-French colony of Djibouti before and during its 1990s civil war, Waberi’s new collection tells the alternatively inspiring and somewhat laborious tale of Bashir “Binlad
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Abdourahman A. Waberi, trans. from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson. Univ. of Chicago/Seagull, $21 (96p) ISBN 978-0-85742-238-5
Novelist Waberi, the best-known contemporary writer from the East African nation of Djibouti, evokes "an entire life in the echo of my tongue" in his first collection of poems. His terse sequences incorporate the region's recent troubles with civil...
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Abdourahman Waberi, trans. from the French by Dominic Thomas. Indiana Univ., $15 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-0-253-02432-9
Waberi (In the United States of Africa), professor of French and Francophone literature at George Washington University, places this short, intricate novel in 1998 Rwanda, four years after the genocide, weaving horrific memories and allusions to the
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Abdourahman A. Waberi, Author, David Ball, Translator, Nicole Ball, Translator , trans. from the French by David and Nicole Ball. Univ. of Nebraska $45 (123p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2262-5
Djibouti-born Waberi’s brief and concentrated tale—part satire, part fable, part fever-dream—imagines the world turned upside down: a war rages between Quebec and the American Midwest, and all of “Euramerica” is a dark,
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Abdourahman A. Waberi, trans. from the French by David and Nicole Ball. Seagull (Univ. of Chicago, dist.), $21 (248p) ISBN 978-0-85742-021-3
The eponymous passage (“the strait that separates the Arabian peninsula from Africa”) lies near Djibouti, the former homeland of Djibril, a 29-year-old man returned, post-9/11, to make “sure the country is secure, the situation stable, and the...
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