The Village of Waiting

Nonfiction, Travel, Africa, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: George Packer ISBN: 9781466894495
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: September 1, 2015
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: George Packer
ISBN: 9781466894495
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: September 1, 2015
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of LaviƩ (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople--peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on "development," find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.

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Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of LaviƩ (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople--peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on "development," find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.

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