Waiting for an Angel

Helon Habila's vivid, exciting, and heart-wrenching debut opens a window onto a world in some ways familiar-with its sensuously depicted streets, student life, and vibrant local characters-yet ruled by one of the world's most corrupt and oppressive regimes, a scandal that ultimately drives Lomba to take a risk in the name of something greater than himself. Habila captures the energy, sensitivity, despair, and stubborn hope of a new African generation with a combination of gritty realism and poetic beauty. Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2001. Reading group guide included.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/2004
ISBN: 9780393325119
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d