As the Crow Flies

As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo’s lyrical collection of short stories, now available in a new English edition translated by Wangui wa Goro. Its nameless characters move through a world shaped by departure and return, loss and recovery, private suffering and shared survival. The book crosses between daily life, news, allegory and ancestral myth, creating a borderless landscape of voices rather than a single linear plot. Each story builds towards a wider vision of human connection: how people endure change, carry memory and reach for dignity. The result is a mosaic of twentieth-century life, written with Tadjo’s distinctive poetic clarity.

Apollo · English edition · translated by Wangui wa Goro · 2024