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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Over the last few years, I've become a huge fan of the Akashic Noir series, and Accra Noir is no exception to the series' quality. Maybe more than any other collection I've read, it brings its focus city to life, so that Accra becomes a real place and character explored through the pages of the stories collected here. The voices are so varied, there's a lot to be admired here, and my only complaint is that many of the authors represented here seem to be new voices...which means I can't find more of their work so soon as I'd like! Truly, though, that speaks to the quality of this wonderful collection.My favorites in the collection included works by: Kwame Dawes, Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo, Anne Sackey, Nana-Ama Danquah, Eibhlin Ni Chleirigh, and Anna Bossman. Absolutely recommended. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. LOVE LOVE LOVE this series from Akashic Books. Even if an individual story doesn't work for me, the immersion in a new city is a fascinating journey. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I have read several of the volumes of short stories in the Akashic "Noir" series, and this was the first one I really didn't like. The stories are very similar. There is very little character development or plot development in most of the thirteen stories. I would not call them "noir" stories at all. A very disappointing volume. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Though I've long been aware of the Akashic Noir series, this is the first title in the series that I've actually picked up. So I can't tell you how Accra Noir compares to any of those other Noirs. But I can tell you this won't be my last Akashic Noir. I liked more of the stories than I didn't. I appreciated the context provided by maps and the very interesting introduction. As I'd hoped, I learned some things about Ghana: more than enough to make me want to read more from and about Ghana. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d'état, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future... Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web...It is an honor and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world."--From the introduction. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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