Home

by Kossi Amékowoyoa Komla-Ebri, Marie Orton (Translator)

Overview

"Home" finds Kossi Komla-Ebri between places and identities, cultures and languages, expectations and realities, Europe and Africa. Across these eleven short stories, Komla-Ebri crosses genres and borders with an expansiveness that welcomes readers into an ever increasing interconnected world and all the struggles that come with it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599541907
Publisher:	Bordighera Press
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Series:	Crossings , #34
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Born in Togo in 1954, Kossi Amékowoyoa Komla-Ebri is a medical surgeon who lives near Como. His publications include the novel "Neyla" (Madison FDU Press, 2004), winner of the Premio Prato CittAperta 2019, and collections of short stories, tales, and anecdotes including "Imbarazzismi" (translated into English as "EmbarRACEments," Bordighera Press, 2019). He is the winner of the 2005 Premio Mare Nostrum for Literature and Premio Graphein by Società di Pedagogia e Didattica della Scrittura in 2009.

Marie Orton is Professor of Italian at Brigham Young University. Her English translation of Kossi Komla-Ebri's "Imbarazzismi and Nuovi imbarazzismi" was published as "EmbaRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color" in 2019. She recently co-edited "Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives" (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2021) with Graziella Parati and Ron Kubati. She is currently researching the intersections of migration and constructed cultural memory in the medium of museums.