Still Waters in Niger
Northwestern University Press
Published on 30. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
205 pages
978-0-8101-5134-5 (ISBN)
Description
The narrator of this novel is an Irish-American woman who returns to the West African country of Niger where she had lived 17 years earlier as the wife of an academic and the mother of three young daughters. Now she is visiting her eldest daughter, Zara, who has herself returned to Africa.
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Series
Edition
Bilingual
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-5134-5 (9780810151345)
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Kathleen Hill's fiction and essays have been published in Best American Short Stories 2000, Pushcart Prize XXV, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. The original publication of Still Waters in Niger (Northwestern,1999) was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was among the Notable Books of the Year in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. A French translation of Still Waters in Niger entitled Eaux Tranquilles was published by Editions Phébus in 2000 and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger. Hill currently teaches in the Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.