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1) Afrotopia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Description
xv, 118 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
ix, 125 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"African Meditations is a unique contemporary portrait of a young philosopher and creative writer as he seeks to establish himself as a teacher upon his return to Senegal, his homeland, after years of study abroad. It is a seamless blend of autobiography, journal entries, and fiction; aphorisms and brief narrative sketches; humor and Zen reflections"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
xviii, 134 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A walking journey through France's vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present-more than 425,000 copies sold in France. After a free-climbing accident lands him in a coma and a hospital for four months, the French writer Sylvain Tesson makes a promise to himself: if he's ever able to walk again, he will traverse the entire country of France on foot. Part literary adventure, part philosophical...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
xiii, 351 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A double agent working for the police and living in the last habitable city on the planet, Mevlido clings to life and hope in the city's vast slums, dreaming of a mysterious mission he is told he must accomplish. A key work in Antoine Volodine's post-exotic fictional universe, Mevlido's Dreams envisions a world changed beyond recognition and ruled under irrational authoritarianism in which dreams nest within dreams and the boundaries between life...
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