Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Hatchette Audio Book Giveaway of Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

A huge thanks to Anna and Hatchette Book Group who are generously sponsoring this giveaway! Three lucky readers will win the audio book of Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan.

About the Book, courtesy of the publisher:

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord.

In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.

Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.

About the Author, courtesy of the publisher:

Uwem Akpan was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in southern Nigeria. After studying philosophy and English at Creighton and Gonzaga universities, he studied theology for three years at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. "My Parents' Bedroom," a story from his short story collection, Say You're One of Them, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007.

Doesn't the book sound fascinating? Listen to an excerpt. Listen to an interview of Uwem Akpan.


CONTEST DETAILS

To enter, please recommend a nonfiction book that you've read recently.

Rules:
1. Please include your email address, so that I can contact you if you win. No email address, no entry.
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3. For another extra entry, subscribe via googlereader or blogger or by email and let me know that you do.
4. For another entry, blog about this giveaway and send me the link.
5. Leave a separate comment for each entry or you'll only be entered once.

The contest is limited to US and Canada only. No P.O. boxes. The contest ends at noon on November 27, 2009. Thank you so much, Anna and Hatchette Book Group for sponsoring this giveaway!

42 comments:

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  16. I recommend The Kommandants Girl...WWII Holocust novel. Really good read. Thanks for the chance! bekki1820cb@gmail.com

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  25. My recommendation for a nonfiction book is The Forever War by Dexter Filkins.

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  28. And a subscriber...

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  29. We posted about this giveaway at winning readings; http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2009/11/say-youre-one-of-them-audiobook_26.html

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  30. A great non-fiction book I just finished reading was The Duggars: 20 and Counting by Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar. I would love to be entered in your draw. Thanks. wandanamgreb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  33. I read so many books, I can never remember the titles. I recently read a book about what would happen if people just disappeared. It was very good. walkerd@primus.ca

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  34. Ok the last non-fiction book I read and thorughly enjoyed was 'Indian Summer' by Alex von Tunzelmann.
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  35. I would recommend A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE by Tony Horowitz.

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  37. I've heard good things about this book!

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  38. I recommend The Three Boxes of Life by Richard N. Bolles the author of What Color is Your Parachute? walkerd at primus dot ca

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  39. I recommend The Mature Mind by Gene D. Cohen.
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