Madagascar and Other Stories is a tour de force by a distinguished writer. It is powerful and sometimes chilling in its emotional landscapes, accurately conveying the disorientation and dislocation of Africa during the consolidation of local rule. Yet the book is also filled with one-of-a-kind characters and jaw-dropping events thinly disguised as fiction.
A white girl disappears in the Congo jungle. A Belgian planter escapes his past. An African king bests an award-winning American journalist in a contest of will.
Author Frederic Hunter developed these stories from his experience as a State Department official and a journalist in Africa in the 1960s.
Ultimately, the reader is left with the humanity of Africans and the risks and also riches of cross-cultural exploration.
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"A sparkling cluster of often poignant tales, told with insight and compassion. They paint an exuberant palette of Africa and its people, overflowing with grace, color and vitality, yet caught in a struggle for dignity and identity in an age that destroys stabilizing traditions. Hunter treads gently but surely between dream and reality. A highly readable, entertaining book."
-David Anable, President, International Center for Journalists "Madagascar and Other Stories is a finely honed collection of stories that evoke the magic of a mysterious and beautiful continent. Fred Hunter introduces us to people and places that are enchanting and dangerous, to a series of deep pools in which we glimpse universal humanity reflected. As you finish one story, you want to start the next."
-Robert Swanson, former writer/producer Murder, She Wrote "From Madagascar to Burkina Faso, Hunter's stories chronicle Africa's unfailing influence on the human spirit, its subtle effect on characters' lives. Africa, Africa! offers readers front row seats in observing how Africa marks those who travel it."
-Julie Knight Stokol, former Peace Corps volunteer, Mali "Frederic Hunter's Madagascar and Other Stories make old Africa hands want to drop everything and head back for the life of daily adventure Hunter depicts so knowledgeably. Newcomers to the continent will find insight to help them face its many baffling enigmas."
-Richard Matheron, former US Ambassador to Swaziland
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Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-951082-95-6 (9781951082956)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Frederic Hunter served as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Information Service in Brussels, Belgium, and, shortly after its independence, at three posts in the Republic of the Congo: Bukavu, Coquilhatville, and Leopoldville. He later became the Africa Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, based in Nairobi.
A playwright / screenwriter, Hunter's award-winning stage work, The Hemingway Play, was given a reading at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, presented at Harvard University's Loeb Drama Center and produced by PBS's Hollywood Television Theater series. Other plays have been performed at the Dallas Theatre Center, ACT in San Francisco, and the Ensemble Theater in Santa Barbara.
Movies Hunter has written have been produced by PBS, ABC, and CBS. Research for his PBS drama Lincoln and the War Within led him to write the historical novel Abe and Molly: The Lincoln Courtship. He's taught screenwriting at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, at UCSB, and at Principia College where he also taught Modern African Literature. Hunter's Africa experience is the basis for several of his novels.
Fred Hunter currently resides in Santa Barbara, California.
