Tenderfoot, Paperback / softback Book

Tenderfoot Paperback / softback

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A Tenderfoot is a novice, someone unaccustomed to hardship.

Here, he is a white boy growing up in 1960s Ethiopia, a place he loves even as he learns his own privilege and foreignness.

Later he hears rumours of a famine in the mountains and imagines a boy his own age living through it, surviving on angry couplets.

Years after, he sees this famine-boy grown up and questions him. A sequel to Ethiopia Boy, Beckett's celebrated first Carcanet collection, Tenderfoot teems with praise-shouts for Asfaw the cook, for the boys living as minibus conductors or chewing-gum sellers, even for Tenderfoot's own stomach that hangs 'like a leopard in a thorn acacia tree'.

Featuring storms and droughts, hunger and desire, donkeys who quote Samuel Johnson and a red bicycle that invites you on a poem tour of Addis Ababa, Tenderfoot takes in what is happening around but also inside the boy's mind and body - a human transformation.

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