The Village of Waiting

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 08/01/2001
ISBN: 9780374527808
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d