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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 25 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Kevin Hanchard. |
| Summary |
From Goncourt Prize finalist Edem Awumey, a beautiful and brilliant new novel. With a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. While distributing leaflets with provocative quotations from Beckett, Ito Baraka is taken to a camp where torture, starvation, beatings, and rape are normal. Forced to inform on his friends, whose fates he now fears, and released a broken man, he is enabled to escape to Quebec. His one goal is to tell the story of the protest and pay homage to Koli Lem, a teacher, cellmate, and lover of books, who was blinded by being forced to look at the sun-and is surely a symbol of the nation. Edem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Student movements -- Africa -- Fiction.
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West Africans -- Québec (Province) -- Fiction.
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Political persecution -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Aronoff, Phyllis, 1945- translator.
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Scott, Howard, 1952- translator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781773055572 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1773055577 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14047688 |
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