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Автор: Cheney-Coker Syl
Название: Sacred River
ISBN: 9780821421376
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Классификация:

Модернистская и современная художественная литература

ISBN-10: 0821421379
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 456
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 12.02.2015
Серия: Fiction
Язык: English
Размер: 226 x 147 x 33
Читательская аудитория: General/trade
Ключевые слова: FICTION / General
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: "The novel fits easily into the post-independence disillusionment novel canon along with Achebes A Man of the People, Armahs The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, and wa Thiongos Wizard of the Crow." —African Studies Quarterly The reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart of this novel. Sacred River deals with the extraordinary lives, hopes, powerful myths, stories, and tragedies of the people of a modern West African nation. It is also the compelling love story of an idealistic philosophy professor and an ex-courtesan of incomparable beauty. Two hundred years after his death, the great Haitian emperor Henri Christophe miraculously appears in a dream to Tankor Satani, president of the fictional West African country of Kissi, with instructions for Tankor to continue Henri Christophes rule, which had been interrupted by "that damned Napoleon." Ambitious in scope, Sacred River is a diaspora-inspired novel, in which Cheney-Coker has tackled the major themes of politics, social strife, crime and punishment, and human frailty and redemption in Malagueta, the fictional, magical town and its surroundings first created by the author in The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, for which he was awarded the coveted Commonwealth Writers Prize. Sacred River is equally about love and politics, and marks the return to fiction of one of Africas major writers.

Sacred River, Cheney-Coker Syl