As The Crow Flies
As The Crow Flies by Veronique Tadjo is an evocative collection of short stories published by Bloomsbury USA on November 12, 2024. This edition, comprising 128 pages, presents a rich tapestry of characters who share their experiences of parting and return, loss and gain, suffering and healing through exquisite, poetic prose.
Readers will find that Tadjo’s writing traverses a borderless landscape, blending tales of daily existence with news reports, allegories, and ancestral myths. This collection offers a lyrical portrait of the interconnectedness of human life, reflecting themes relevant to fiction, literary exploration, and world literature, particularly within the context of Africa and West Africa.
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From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo’s evocative collection of short stories.
Writing in exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo weaves together a rich tapestry of characters – all nameless and faceless – as they tell their stories of parting and return, losing and gaining, suffering and healing.
Like a bird in flight, Tadjo travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, creating a lyrical and moving portrait of the interconnectedness of human life.
‘A mosaic of 20th-century life.’ Guardian
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