{"product_id":"the-continent-of-everything-and-practically-nothing-paperback","title":"The Continent of Everything and Practically Nothing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSami Tchak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Togolese novel that delivers a rich, intimate portrait of a scholar whose life is inextricably bound to Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the French ethnologist Maurice Boyer, Africa isn't just a place; it's a mirage, an enigma, a mirror reflecting his desires and doubts. The fieldwork he undertook in Tèdi, Togo, where he lived for years among the Tem people and tried to understand their customs and rituals, has left him with questions that have lingered: Who was a friend and who was a foe? Which stories were true and which were illusions? As decades pass and the roles of Aurélie, his wife, and Safi, his former student, begin to shift, Boyer finds himself wrestling not only with his own choices but with the legacy of knowledge itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the lens of this profound postcolonial quest, Sami Tchak explores Africa's rich, complex reality through this intimate story of a scholar reconsidering his own understanding of culture, ethnology, and history. \u003ci\u003eThe Continent of Everything and Practically Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e asks whether assembling more data can truly capture the complexity of a continent, and explores how academic ambition, history, and emotion shape how we understand the world, and how we live in it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Togo in 1960, \u003cb\u003eSami Tchak\u003c\/b\u003e is a celebrated novelist and essayist best known for his novel Hermina. \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of French literature, including works by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48629890285817,"sku":"9781803096322","price":29.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/J8CQFiUeTg9781803096322.webp?v=1783063076","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-continent-of-everything-and-practically-nothing-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}