![]() ![]() “A marvellous, highly absorbing read bound to strike up conversations at award time.” Watching them land like butterflies on raw truth is a marvellous sight to behold.” With Sweetness in the Belly, you know something other than lived experience is at work, and that something is a roving mind, a questing heart. ![]() ![]() The back-and-forth structure succeeds brilliantly. A hugely ambitious work executed with deceptive ease, it is an unbelievably odd tale, yet utterly convincing, able to transport us behind closed borders and back again. “This is a rarity, a novel that transforms expectations. vivid and rich in detail, politically relevant and eminently readable.” “This complex tale about exile, romance and human rights combines the authority of Gibb’s scholarship on social anthropology with the lushness of her fictional vision.” “Gibb’s Africa is finely crafted, as is her delicate rendering of the complexities of Ethiopian society. –2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury citation is a sophisticated, ambitious and deeply affecting novel which is devastatingly relevant to our contemporary world.” “ Sweetness in the Belly is a timely and compelling novel of ideas which explores the ethics of cultural identity in a multicultural era. . Reviews One of Amazon.ca's Best Books of 2005 ![]()
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