Publication
NYRB Classics (2001), 432 pages
Description
Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all.
Awards
Original language
English
Original publication date
1981 (Flammarion)
1983 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich English translation)
2001 (New York Review Books English translation)
Subjects
Physical description
432 p.; 5 inches
ISBN
0940322889 / 9780940322882