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June 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Writing - Niger: Booklist Publications: Paul Stoller's Gallery Bundu: In 1969, almost by chance, David, a young, draft-dodging, beer-swilling Peace Corps worker, absorbs the beauty of West Africa and learns to appreciate its land and its rich cultural heritage
Paul Stoller's Gallery Bundu: In 1969, almost by chance, David, a young, draft-dodging, beer-swilling Peace Corps worker, absorbs the beauty of West Africa and learns to appreciate its land and its rich cultural heritage
Ethnographer Stoller, the prolific author of several academic studies of African life and art and one other novel (Jaguar, 1999), turns again to fiction in this largely autobiographical tale of memory, longing, and regret.
Paul Stoller's Gallery Bundu: In 1969, almost by chance, David, a young, draft-dodging, beer-swilling Peace Corps worker, absorbs the beauty of West Africa and learns to appreciate its land and its rich cultural heritage
Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past
Jun 1, 2005 - Booklist, The
Stoller, Paul. Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past. June 2005. 176p. Univ. of Chicago, paper, $15 (0-226-77524-0).
Ethnographer Stoller, the prolific author of several academic studies of African life and art and one other novel (Jaguar, 1999), turns again to fiction in this largely autobiographical tale of memory, longing, and regret. Gallery owner David Lyons, now middle- aged, uses the ancient storyteller's art to weave the threads of his past into a pattern that represents his love of Niger, the people he met there, and his need to stay connected with them. In 1969, almost by chance, David, a young, draft-dodging, beer-swilling Peace Corps worker, absorbs the beauty of West Africa and learns to appreciate its land and its rich cultural heritage, especially the arts of wood carving and weaving.
He also loves and leaves a beautiful local girl when she becomes pregnant with his child, an act he regrets the rest of his life. Richly filled with the heat, odors, and cadences of Nigerian life, its inexorable traditions and powerful magic, this short literary novel captures the spirit of Africa and brings a small part of it back to America with its transformed narrator. - Jennifer Baker
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