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How Beautiful We Were
ISBN: 9781838851378
Autorius : Imbolo Mbue
Leidimo metai: 2022
Leidėjas: Canongate Books Ltd
Puslapių skaičius: 368
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Minkšti viršeliai
Autorius : Imbolo Mbue
Leidimo metai: 2022
Leidėjas: Canongate Books Ltd
Puslapių skaičius: 368
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Minkšti viršeliai
Aprašymas
'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, this is 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 broken. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But it will come at a steep price - one which generation after generation will have to pay.
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.
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.
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