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Ambiguous Adventure

Hamidou Kane, Cheikh more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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Hailed by Chinua Achebe as one of the greatest African novels ever written, this long-unavailable classic tells the tale of young Samba Diallo, a devout pupil in a Koranic religious school in Senegal whose parents send him to Paris to study philosophy. Unknown to Samba, it is his family's desperate attempt to better understand the French colonial forces transforming their traditional way of life. But for Samba, it's an exciting adventure, and once in France he excels at his new studies and is delighted by both the French language and his new "marvelous comprehension and total communion" with the Western world.

"Exceptionally beautiful... highly original... [and] oddly moving. "Ambiguous Adventure" is an indispensable book for anyone wishing to delve into the psychology of colonialism."
--"Words Without Borders"

Title: Ambiguous Adventure
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Contributors: By (author) Cheikh Hamidou Kane ; By (author) Hamidou Kane ; Translated by Katherine Woods

ISBN 13: 9781612190549
ISBN 10: 1612190545

Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: Brooklyn, United States
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 843.914 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
Height: 203mm
Width: 129mm
Thickness: 10mm
Weight: 177g