Mr Bigstuff and the Goddess of Charm: Parties, Cars, Love and Ambition South of the Sahara
Language: English
Published by Picador, 2000
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, CanadaAlhambra Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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290 pp. Dj has small chips and tears along edges. Boards have light edgewear. Lightly bumped corners. Interior is clean and tight.
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- Title
- Mr Bigstuff and the Goddess of Charm: Parties, Cars, Love and Ambition South of the Sahara
- Author
- Ledger, Fiona Sax
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good +
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0330374370
- ISBN 13
- 9780330374378
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Review
In this sharp book of reportage, Fiona Sax Ledger gives a wry portrait of these struggles. For 20 years she has travelled throughout urban Africa for the World Service, and in a series of vignettes she conveys the joy, infuriation and sense of powerlessness which travelling here can produce. In so doing, she washes away African stereotypes--these are not "mysterious" people with a "vibrant traditional culture", but ordinary people leading ordinary lives, and trying to make sense of their place in the modern world.
Although it lacks a clear narrative thread, Mr Bigstuff and the Goddess of Charm is a laudably honest book. Taking us from Liberia to Djibouti via most of the bits in between, Sax Ledger does not try to create mystique, nor present herself as anything other than a beer-drinking hack trying and often failing to understand local problems. The ingredients of Africa's modern face are mostly here, and, by concentrating on details, Sax Ledger has managed to pin down something of the complex essence of urban Africa. --Toby Green
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