Author : George Packer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894490
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Book Synopsis The Village of Waiting by : George Packer
Download or read book The Village of Waiting written by George Packer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople--peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on "development," find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.