How Beautiful We Were
Nominiert: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2022
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company
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'Sweeping and quietly devastating' New York Times'A David and Goliath story for our times' O, the Oprah Magazine
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a steep price . . . one which generation after generation will have to pay.
Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.
Autoren-Porträt von Imbolo Mbue
Imbolo Mbue is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Behold the Dreamers, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was an Oprah's Book Club selection. The novel has been translated into eleven languages, adapted into an opera and a stage play, and optioned for a miniseries. A native of Limbe, Cameroon, Mbue lives in New York.imbolombue.com
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Imbolo Mbue
- 2021, Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland, 368 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- ISBN-10: 1838851356
- ISBN-13: 9781838851354
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Sweeping and quietly devastating . . . In Kosawa, Mbue has created a place and a people alive with emotional range . . . Profoundly affecting New York Times
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