num_pages: 96
description: There Is a Country collects eight engrossing pieces by South Sudanese authorsthe first collection of its kind from the youngest country in the world. Wrestling with a history marked by war and displacement the work here presents a fresh and necessary account of an emerging nation past and present. In vivid gripping prose There Is a Country's stories explore youth and love life and death: a first glimpse of what South Sudanese literature has to offer.
language: English
title: There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
publisher: McSweeney's