Still Waters in Niger

by Kathleen Hill

Book Overview

A New York Times Notable Book for 1999
Best Fiction of 1999, the Los Angeles Times Book Review
Starred review, Publishers Weekly
Finalist for 1998 Dublin IMPAC Literary Award

The narrator of this book is an Irish-American woman who returns to the West African country of Niger where she had lived seventeen years earlier as the wife of an academic and the mother of three young daughters. Now she is visiting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810150891
• ISBN13: 9780810150898
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

What a wonderful book!

STILL WATERS IN NIGER is so masterfully conceived and written that I was reluctant to finish, reading more and more slowly as I came toward the end. This is a work that grows increasingly powerful and beautiful, especially in its final section and concluding three calls to prayer. The author transported me to Niger and enlarged my understanding of what is is to be a global citizen, a parent (and daughter), a mother, a woman, and (so searchingly) a person. I intend to survey recent issues of the Hudson and Yale Reviews where, according to the jacket, there are other works by Kathleen Hill. May she give us more writing and, soon, another book as fine as this!

The author knows and makes us feel the real Zinder / Niger.

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!