There is a country
Subtitle: new fiction from the new nation of South Sudan
By: edited by Nyuol Lueth Tong
Contributors: McSweeney's (Firm)
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781938073748
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Short stories, South Sudanese (English); Fiction
Description: "There Is a Country" collects eight engrossing pieces by South Sudanese authors--the 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Nyuol Lueth Tong; title: Escape  -- Edward Eremugo Luka; title: Port Sudan journal  -- Victor Lugala; title: The bastard  -- Nyuol Lueth Tong; title: Lexicographicide  -- Taban Lo Liyong; title: Holy warrior  -- David L. Lukudu; title: Potato thief  -- John Oryem; title: Light of day  -- Samuel Garang Akau; title: Tall palms -- Arif Gamal.