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Go Tell the Crocodiles : Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique by Rowan Moore Gerety (2018, Hardcover)

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Author: Rowan Moore Gerety. Format: Hardback. Publisher: The New Press. Subtitle: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique. Genre: Society & Culture. Item Length: 155mm. Item Height: 234mm. Language: English.

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PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-10162097276X

ISBN-139781620972762

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Book TitleGo Tell the Crocodiles : Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicDeveloping & Emerging Countries, Africa / South / General, Development / Economic Development, Economics / General, World / African

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorRowan Moore Gerety

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsPraise for Go Tell the Crocodiles : "Gerety effectively illustrates Mozambique's complexities and how people navigate difficult circumstances. As the author shows, chasing prosperity is rather different from catching prosperity." -- Kirkus Reviews "With a cast of characters vast enough for an epic, Gerety's Mozambique emerges facet by facet like a rough-hewn jewel, reflecting back at us the struggles of Africa and of all countries wrestling with a brutal past and the false promises of modernity." --Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon "Overflows with fantastically close reporting, cool and subtle judgments, and characters that absolutely leap to life. Rowan Moore Gerety gets next to all sorts of Mozambicans--street vendors, poor farmers, a people smuggler, the hapless leader of the political opposition--and then takes us deep into lives that illuminate the dark, pitiless dynamics of profound underdevelopment." --William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days and staff writer for the New Yorker "For Mozambique, a country which has suffered as much as any in Africa, this book is the real story. It is full of grit, despair, vivid detail, colorful characters and the unexpected resourcefulness of people who've managed to create jobs, music and more when every conceivable force seems arrayed against them." --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains "Rowan Moore Gerety has given us a wry and beautifully written account of Mozambique today, a country that has managed the troubling feat of failing its people while showing signs of stunning economic growth. It's about Mozambique--and it's about the world we all live in." --Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season, Praise for Go Tell the Crocodiles : "[Go Tell the Crocodiles] reads very much like a multipart serial for a magazine, amply enlightening the reader about various aspects of Mozambique life." -- Publishers Weekly "Gerety effectively illustrates Mozambique's complexities and how people navigate difficult circumstances. As the author shows, chasing prosperity is rather different from catching prosperity." -- Kirkus Reviews "With a cast of characters vast enough for an epic, Gerety's Mozambique emerges facet by facet like a rough-hewn jewel, reflecting back at us the struggles of Africa and of all countries wrestling with a brutal past and the false promises of modernity." --Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon "Overflows with fantastically close reporting, cool and subtle judgments, and characters that absolutely leap to life. Rowan Moore Gerety gets next to all sorts of Mozambicans--street vendors, poor farmers, a people smuggler, the hapless leader of the political opposition--and then takes us deep into lives that illuminate the dark, pitiless dynamics of profound underdevelopment." --William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days and staff writer for the New Yorker "For Mozambique, a country which has suffered as much as any in Africa, this book is the real story. It is full of grit, despair, vivid detail, colorful characters and the unexpected resourcefulness of people who've managed to create jobs, music and more when every conceivable force seems arrayed against them." --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains "Rowan Moore Gerety has given us a wry and beautifully written account of Mozambique today, a country that has managed the troubling feat of failing its people while showing signs of stunning economic growth. It's about Mozambique--and it's about the world we all live in." --Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season, Praise for Go Tell the Crocodiles : "Gerety effectively illustrates Mozambique's complexities and how people navigate difficult circumstances. As the author shows, chasing prosperity is rather different from catching prosperity." -- Kirkus Reviews, Praise for Go Tell the Crocodiles : "[A] vivid and thought-provoking book. . . . Moore Gerety unpacks the complexities of Mozambican society through nine chapter-length sketches of individuals and communities." -- Booklist "[Go Tell the Crocodiles] reads very much like a multipart serial for a magazine, amply enlightening the reader about various aspects of Mozambique life." -- Publishers Weekly "Gerety effectively illustrates Mozambique's complexities and how people navigate difficult circumstances. As the author shows, chasing prosperity is rather different from catching prosperity." -- Kirkus Reviews "With a cast of characters vast enough for an epic, Gerety's Mozambique emerges facet by facet like a rough-hewn jewel, reflecting back at us the struggles of Africa and of all countries wrestling with a brutal past and the false promises of modernity." --Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon "Overflows with fantastically close reporting, cool and subtle judgments, and characters that absolutely leap to life. Rowan Moore Gerety gets next to all sorts of Mozambicans--street vendors, poor farmers, a people smuggler, the hapless leader of the political opposition--and then takes us deep into lives that illuminate the dark, pitiless dynamics of profound underdevelopment." --William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days and staff writer for the New Yorker "For Mozambique, a country which has suffered as much as any in Africa, this book is the real story. It is full of grit, despair, vivid detail, colorful characters and the unexpected resourcefulness of people who've managed to create jobs, music and more when every conceivable force seems arrayed against them." --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains "Rowan Moore Gerety has given us a wry and beautifully written account of Mozambique today, a country that has managed the troubling feat of failing its people while showing signs of stunning economic growth. It's about Mozambique--and it's about the world we all live in." --Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season, Praise for Go Tell the Crocodiles : "Gerety effectively illustrates Mozambique's complexities and how people navigate difficult circumstances. As the author shows, chasing prosperity is rather different from catching prosperity." -- Kirkus Reviews "With a cast of characters vast enough for an epic, Gerety's Mozambique emerges facet by facet like a rough-hewn jewel, reflecting back at us the struggles of Africa and of all countries wrestling with a brutal past and the false promises of modernity." --Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon "This book overflows with fantastically close reporting, cool and subtle judgments, and characters that absolutely leap to life. Rowan Moore Gerety gets next to all sorts of Mozambicans--street vendors, poor farmers, a people smuggler, the hapless leader of the political opposition--and then takes us deep into lives that illuminate the dark, pitiless dynamics of profound underdevelopment. The result is an unnervingly vivid portrait of a country that's often oversimplified and misunderstood." --William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days and staff writer for the New Yorker "For Mozambique, a country which has suffered as much as any in Africa, this book is the real story. It is full of grit, despair, vivid detail, colorful characters and the unexpected resourcefulness of people who've managed to create jobs, music and more when every conceivable force seems arrayed against them." --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains "Gerety has given us a wry and beautifully written account of Mozambique today, a country that has managed the troubling feat of failing its people while showing signs of stunning economic growth. This is an uplifting, exciting book that offers readers back stories about charisma politics, imperialism's detritus, and the harsh dilemmas faced by the developing world in the twenty-first century. It's about Mozambique--and it's about the world we all live in." --Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season and Martyrs' Crossing

SynopsisOver the past twenty years, Mozambique has experienced steeper economic growth than China, making it among the fastest-growing economies on the planet. But most Mozambicans have little to show for the nation's prosperity; to travel in Mozambique is to see much of the promise of development as a mirage. And in the fall of 2016, a sudden debt crisis gripped the nation, heralding what many in the financial world feared might be the beginning of a "global financial shockwave" (The Guardian). Go Tell the Crocodiles explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. Author Rowan Moore Gerety tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambique's child labor laws to make his living selling muffins to a community that struggles with frequent crocodile attacks. Gerety introduces us to a nation struggling with mercenaries, refugees, infectious disease, human smuggling, child labor, warlords, and political corruption, weaving stories together into a stunning broader account of the challenges facing Africa and all developing nations., In the tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an unforgettable exploration of the disturbing daily lives behind the scenes in Mozambique, Africa's former "rising star", In the tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an unforgettable exploration of the trials of daily life in Mozambique, long heralded as Africa's "rising star" Over the past twenty-five years, Mozambique has charted a path of dizzying economic growth nearly as steep as China's, making it among the fastest-growing economies on the planet. But most Mozambicans have little to show for the long boom; to travel in Mozambique is to see much of the promise of development as a mirage. And in the fall of 2016, a debt crisis unraveled layers of corruption that reverberated across Europe, heralding what many in the financial world feared might be the beginning of a "global financial shockwave" (The Guardian). Go Tell the Crocodiles explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. Author Rowan Moore Gerety tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambique's child labor laws to make his living selling muffins, to a riverside community that has lost dozens of people to crocodile attacks. Moore Gerety introduces us to a nation still coming to grips with a long civil war and the legacy of colonialism even as it wrestles with the toll of infectious disease and a wave of refugees, weaving stories together into a stunning account of the challenges facing countries across Africa., In the tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers , an unforgettable exploration of the trials of daily life in Mozambique, long heralded as Africa's "rising star" Over the past twenty-five years, Mozambique has charted a path of dizzying economic growth nearly as steep as China's, making it among the fastest-growing economies on the planet. But most Mozambicans have little to show for the long boom; to travel in Mozambique is to see much of the promise of development as a mirage. And in the fall of 2016, a debt crisis unraveled layers of corruption that reverberated across Europe, heralding what many in the financial world feared might be the beginning of a "global financial shockwave" ( The Guardian ). Go Tell the Crocodiles explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. Author Rowan Moore Gerety tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambique's child labor laws to make his living selling muffins, to a riverside community that has lost dozens of people to crocodile attacks. Moore Gerety introduces us to a nation still coming to grips with a long civil war and the legacy of colonialism even as it wrestles with the toll of infectious disease and a wave of refugees, weaving stories together into a stunning account of the challenges facing countries across Africa.

LC Classification NumberHC890.G47 2018