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Still Waters in Niger (Hardcover)

by Kathleen Thompson Hill (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 206 pages
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press; First edition (31 Dec 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0810150891
  • ISBN-13: 978-0810150898
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.9 x 8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,606,362 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An Irish-American woman, who had lived in Niger, returns after seventeen years to visit her daughter Zara, who works in a village clinic treating children who are suffering from starvation.


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"Continuity and the binding of generations: Whether explored in remote, exotic Niger or in the confines of family life, these are Hill's abiding concerns in her elegantly evocative book."--Michael Frank, The Los Angeles Times

"The narrative follows, without overwriting, a meticulous course between poetry and prose...The prevailing spirit of Kathleen Hill's novel is not of pain, but of the kinship of life everywhere."--Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

"The narrator's profound, unflashy observations about motherhood, the necessities and extravagances of survival, the effect of travel and dislocation and the peculiar beauty of the drought-struck land are the work of a brilliant essayist."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A beautiful book, with great lyric power and emotional resonance."--Mary Gordon

"Subtle, elegant, and beautifully written, this apparently quiet novel is in fact surprisingly subversive."--Andrea Barrett

"When I read this novel, I realized I'd been hoping to find it for decades. Here were qualities of beauty, seriousness, distinction, tenderness, and moral sense, conveyed in a prose as austere and lavish as the desert landscape it evokes."--Alfred Corn

"Here is a novel of fine social and cross-cultural observation, and too, of moral inwardness--a wonderfully knowing storyteller with a strong spiritual bent tells us so very much about idealism and its vicissitudes, parenthood and its possibilities."--Robert Coles

"A splendid piece of writing, charged with all the pain and beauty and mystery that Africa holds."--Eddy L. Harris

"If there are still books in a hundred years, I believe this will be among them."--Margot Livesey

"This book captures love and desperation in lives that are humanized through our recognition of some part of ourselfes--the holiness of shadows and how they measure the imaginitive landscape. Still Waters in Niger is a prayer for the characters, a prayer for us who render a semblence of care and understanding."--Yusef Komunyakaa

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still worth reading Still water in Niger, 4 Nov 2009
By M. Larsson "Malar" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Waters in Niger (Triquarterly Books) (Paperback)
Impressed how Cathleen Hills paints the characters and the delicate details that gives you the impression of being there in that exotic place.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The author knows and makes us feel the real Zinder / Niger., 10 Jun 1999
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I have been in Zinder for three years and in Niger for 12 years. In "Still Waters in Niger" the author Kathleen Hill puts me back there as it was, as it is, as it will be when I will go back there. Quite a writer... everything is so true in that "novel". Zinder is more real than life. And fiction brings you to reality.It is a documentary through poetry. This is due to the great talent of the author and also to her keen sense of observation. An gode maki. Barka da aiki!
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