Fisherman’s Blues: A West African Community at Sea Anna Badkhen. Riverhead, $27 (p) ISBN and special rituals, such as the sacrificial feast to prevent the sea’s anger. Fisherman's Blues is Badkhen's ode to a community's fraught ties to geography, and a gentle lament for an existence eroding at the shoreline.” -Dallas Morning News. “A conventional account of life in Joal would be fascinating reading in and of itself—a crucial snapshot of an endangered lifestyle.4/5(2). · Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable—between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and www.doorway.ru: Penguin Publishing Group.
Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable--between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder. Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea is written by Anna Badkhen and published by Riverhead Books (P-US). The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Fisherman's Blues are , X and the print ISBNs are , Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include , Praise For Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea " Fisherman's Blues is a colorful and affecting portrait of an entire way of life, but it's also a report from the front lines of a small industry in the twilight of a struggle it never thought it would even face, much less lose There isn't any realistic light at the end of.
Author/Creator: Badkhen, Anna, www.doorway.ruation: New York: Riverhead Books, Format/Description: Book pages: illustrations, maps ; 22 cm Status. Fisherman's Blues is Badkhen's ode to a community's fraught ties to geography, and a gentle lament for an existence eroding at the shoreline.” -Dallas Morning News. “A conventional account of life in Joal would be fascinating reading in and of itself—a crucial snapshot of an endangered lifestyle. In Fisherman’s Blues, Badkhen documents the cultural, economic, and environmental turmoil in a centuries-old Senegalese fishing village. Min Jin Lee is the author of the “accomplished and engrossing” (New York Times Book Review) novel Free Food for Millionaires, a story of culture clash and identity that was named to a number of
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