Dark Child The Autobiography of an African Boy

Name: Dark Child The Autobiography of an African Boy
Price: 3.8 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780809015481

ISBN-10: 080901548X

ISBN-13: 9780809015481

Edition: N/A

Authors: Camara Laye, Philippe Thoby-Marcellin, James Kirkup, Ernest Jones

List price: $18.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.80

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/1/1954
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English