A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST
'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 ...
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How Beautiful We Were
Nominiert: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2022. Nominiert: ASLE-UKI Book Prize (creative writing), 2023
Mbue, Imbolo
Kartoniert, 368 S.
Sprache: Englisch
198 mm
Canongate Books (2022)
Gewicht: 246 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-83885-137-8
Titelnr.: 94858698