On This Page
Description
Exile laid bare the lives of listless teenage expats in Tanzania; Revolution shifts the focus to the African and Indian Tanzanians they live among... Moses, a worker in a lethal Tanzanite mine, who risks it all every day in the hope of striking it rich; Rachel, who leaves the countryside to make a living, but finds herself in a city where everyone sees her as a whore in waiting; Shakila, who manages to escape to the States, but not from racial prejudice. This is their reality - drowning in show more corruption, the need to graft and scrap, selling their morals and their bodies as needs be. The Africa Trilogy is at once epic and minutely human, because Ejersbo never fails to show compassion for his characters: however corrupted or morally blemished they may become, they are worth a better life. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Recommendations
Member Reviews
Fremragende, fremragende, fremragende!
De ni fortællinger med omdrejningspunkt i Tanzania - med afstikkere til Grønland, Chicago og Helsinki - giver i mine øjne Ejersbos bog en kommende klassikerstatus. Knivskarpe portrætter af både personer og samfund og med betragtninger om menneskelivenes indretning, der bare sidder i øjet hver gang.
Jeg kan ikke udpege nogen af fortællingerne som den eller de centrale, da de hver især udfylder en meningsfuld plads i bogen i fint samspil med de andre. Indtil videre 2009's danske bog!
De ni fortællinger med omdrejningspunkt i Tanzania - med afstikkere til Grønland, Chicago og Helsinki - giver i mine øjne Ejersbos bog en kommende klassikerstatus. Knivskarpe portrætter af både personer og samfund og med betragtninger om menneskelivenes indretning, der bare sidder i øjet hver gang.
Jeg kan ikke udpege nogen af fortællingerne som den eller de centrale, da de hver især udfylder en meningsfuld plads i bogen i fint samspil med de andre. Indtil videre 2009's danske bog!
Nov 1, 2009Danish
Rå roman hvor forsømte unge mennesker flirter med stoffer, sprut og sex. Fantastisk bog.
Dec 16, 2009Danish
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
8+ Works 639 Members
Series
Work Relationships
Contains
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Revolution
- Original publication date
- 2009-08-31
- Important places
- Moshi, Tanzania; Arusha, Tanzania; Aalborg, Denmark; Africa; Greenland
- First words
- Stjernerne siger, at jeg skal hade danske hippier, falde for en fransk fakir, være agent 007 i Marokko, sulte i Sudan, smugle guld i kussen, berøves af Idi Amin og bære seks forskellige slags orm i mine indvolde, hvor den ... (show all)sjette er noget ganske særligt.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Vi går gennem mørket.
- Publisher's editor
- Johannes Riis
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 839.8138 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures Danish Danish fiction 2000–
- LCC
- PT8176.15 .J47 .R48 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Danish literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 96
- Popularity
- 334,391
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.15)
- Languages
- Danish, English, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 4
