{"product_id":"ethiopia-boy-book-chris-beckett-9781906188092","title":"Ethiopia Boy","description":"Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions ...old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'. \"Ethiopia Boy\" plunges the reader into praise poems that sing and boast and glory in the colours and textures of this extraordinary country. Here is a world of feasting on spicy kikwot and of famine sucking the water from rivers, of lion buses and a prayer child, where Earth sings greetings to the feet that walk on her. Haunted by the memory of his friend Abebe, the cook's son, Beckett celebrates and laments a lost boyhood in poems of vivid immediacy. Cover painting: \"Isao Miura\", \"Crossing the Water\" (oil on canvas). Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557564096785,"sku":"GOR006551370","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1906188092.jpg?v=1756707580","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ethiopia-boy-book-chris-beckett-9781906188092","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}