An African in Greenland (New York Review Books Classics)

by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Paperback, 2001

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.

Original language

English

Original publication date

1981 (Flammarion)
1983 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich English translation)
2001 (New York Review Books English translation)

Physical description

432 p.; 5 inches

ISBN

0940322889 / 9780940322882

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