¿Te acuerdas que hemos empezado un reto de lectura hace unos meses? Y tras mucho esfuerzo, habíamos conseguido seleccionar cinco libros, de los cuales ya teníamos uno... que justo no nos gusta! Eso sí esta vez hemos sido mucho más rápidas en encontrar substituto!
Uno de los libros seleccionados era "A way of being free" de Ben Okri, escritor nigeriano muy reconocido, ganó el premio Booker Prize for Fiction en 1991 por la novela "The famished road". El libro "A way of being free" es una colección de sus 12 ensayos más polémicos sobre la libertad. El libro parece muy bueno, pero no nos sentimos con fuerzas para leerlo.
Alternativa: "Looking for Transworderland" de Noo Saro-Wiwa. Noo Saro-Wiwa es escritora de viajes, colaborando con guías como Lonely Planet, Rough Guide... "Looking for Transworderland" presenta Nigeria en forma de una guía de viaje, desde un punto de vista diferente: el de Noo, de nacionalidad nigeriana pero educada en Reino Unido. Con este libro consigue el doble objetivo de acercarnos a Nigeria al tiempo que ella la descubre.
Unicamente en inglés, tiene críticas muy buenas y es fácil encontrarlo en librerías online. Con ganas de leerlo, esperamos que nos guste!
Synopsis: Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was murdered there, and she didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to rediscover and come to terms with the country her father loved. She travelled from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the empty Transwonderland Amusement Park - Nigeria's decrepit and deserted answer to Disneyland. She explored Nigerian christianity, delved into its history of slavery, examined the corrupting effect of oil, investigated Nollywood. She found the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despaired at the corruption and inefficiency she encountered. But she also discovered that it was far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, and was seduced by its thick tropical rainforest and ancient palaces and monuments. Most engagingly of all she introduces us to the people she meets, and gives us hilarious insights into the Nigerian character, its passion, wit and ingenuity.
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