An Elemental Thing

Name: An Elemental Thing
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811216944
Price: 2500 KES
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ISBN: 9780811216944

by Eliot Weinberger

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0811216942

ISBN-13 9780811216944

Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation

Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 17th, 2007

Print length 192 Pages

Weight 232 grams

Dimensions 13.50 x 20.20 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literature & literary studies

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Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable.

With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.

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