<DIV><I>There Is a Country</I> collects eight engrossing pieces by South Sudanese authors?the first collection of its kind, from the youngest country in the world. Wrestling with a history marked by war and displacement, the work here presents a fresh and necessary account of an emerging nation, past and present. In vivid, gripping prose, <I>There Is a Country's</I> stories explore youth and love, life and death: a first glimpse of what South Sudanese literature has to offer.<BR></DIV>