The Village of Waiting by George Packer Paperback Book

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Author: George Packer

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Published: Aug 2001

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Travelers

Retail Price: $18.00

Pages: 336

Synopsis

Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavie (the name means 'wait a little more') in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, 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.

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