Anna Badkhen

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Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at SeaPaperback, 12 March 2019

Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea
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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Date Published
12 Mar 2019
ISBN-10
1594634874
ISBN-13
9781594634871

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE

An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.

The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.

For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find.

Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable--between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder.

Product Details

Author:
Anna Badkhen
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
12 March 2019
Dimensions:
20.83 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
1594634874
ISBN-13:
9781594634871
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Weight:
249.48 gm

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