The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy - Softcover

Laye, Camara

 
9780809015481: The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 080901548X ISBN 13: 9780809015481
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1954

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The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea.

Long regarded as Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-1980) 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 an 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 Dark Child is a classic of African literature.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Camara Laye was born in 1928 in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. He was still in his twenties and studying engineering in France when he wrote his award-winning memoir, The Dark Child. His next book, The Radiance of the King, was described as "one of the greatest of the African novels of the colonial period" (Kwame Anthony Appiah). He died in Senegal in 1980.

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This book is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. Laye marvels over this 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.

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Verlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
1954
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080901548X
ISBN 13 
9780809015481
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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