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100			_aSteinberg, Jonny _93986
245			_aLittle Liberia: an African odyssey in New York City _cSteinberg Jonny, Fish Lucky
260			_aJohannesburg : _bJonathan Ball, _c2011.
300			_a286 pages _bcolour iluustrations: maps, portraits _c24 cm
504			_aSummary: "In his latest book, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, Steinberg takes us to Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island, where a community of Liberians have made their home. Through interviews and shadowing of two community leaders, Steinberg strives to understand the peculiarities of this community; while it appears at times as if a piece of Liberia has been sliced off and dropped in New York, the Park Hill community is ravaged by conflict between different interest groups. To understand what is going on in 2008 New York, Steinberg travels back - back to Liberia and back to the country's tragic recent history of civil war, military coups and mass exterminations. The story of Liberia is a gruesome and miserable one but Steinberg's empathy for his subjects never allows the narrative to descend into voyeurism. The combination of hard nosed investigative journalism, a gift for storytelling and an obvious empathy for the characters that he shadows makes Steinberg an author who demands to be read, whatever the subject matter. A brilliant and important book which will delight Steinberg's thousands of followers and doubtless earn him many more"--Book Lounge. Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273) and index.
521			_aAdult
942			_2ddc _cBOOK _w12663 _xPriscilla Nozizwe Mogale _y12663 _zPriscilla Nozizwe Mogale
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