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Mount Pleasant

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

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Mount Pleasant

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

Originally published in French in 2011 by aEditions Philippe Rey, France, as Mont plaisant.

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Macmillan

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0374213852

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9780374213855

A Trail of Crab Tracks

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

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The award-winning author Patrice Nganang chronicles the fight for Cameroonian independence through the story of a father’s love for his family and his land and of the long-silenced secrets of his former life. For the first time, Nithap flies across the world to visit his son, Tanou, in the United States. After countless staticky phone calls and transatlantic silences, he has agreed to leave Bangwa: the city in western Cameroon where he has always lived, where he became a doctor and, despite himself, a rebel, where he fell in love, and where his children were born. When illness extends his stay, his son finds an opportunity to unravel the history of the mysterious man who raised him, following the trail of crab tracks to discover the truth of his father and his country. At last, Nithap’s throat clears and his voice rises, and he drifts back in time to tell his son the story that is burned into his memory and into the land he left behind. He speaks about the civil war that tore Cameroon apart, about the great men who lived and died, about his soldiers, his martyrs, and his great loves. As the tale unfolds, Tanou listens to his father tell the history of his family and the prayer of the blood-soaked land. From New Jersey to Bamileke country, voices mingle, the borders of time dissolve, and generations merge. In A Trail of Crab Tracks, the third part of a magisterial trilogy by Patrice Nganang, the award-winning author creates an epic of war, inheritance, and desire, and of the relentless, essential struggle for freedom.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374602999

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9780374602994

Dog Days

An Animal Chronicle

By: Alain Patrice Nganang

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Dog Days

An Animal Chronicle

By: Alain Patrice Nganang

In the vanguard of a new generation of writers, Nganang tells--"through the voice of a dog"--the story of an Africa born of military dictators and absolute poverty.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813925355

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9780813925356

When the Plums Are Ripe

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

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When the Plums Are Ripe

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War II In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world’s own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all their still-unsold plums into the embers.” In this novel of radiant lyricism, Patrice Nganang recounts the story of Cameroon’s forced entry into World War II, and in the process complicates our own understanding of that globe-spanning conflict. After the fall of France in 1940, Cameroon found itself caught between Vichy and the Free French at a time when growing nationalism advised allegiance to neither regime, and was ultimately dragged into fighting throughout North Africa on behalf of the Allies. Moving from Pouka’s story to the campaigns of the French general Leclerc and the battles of Kufra and Murzuk, Nganang questions the colonial record and recenters African perspectives at the heart of Cameroon’s national history, all the while writing with wit and panache. When the Plums Are Ripe is a brilliantly crafted, politically charged epic that challenges not only the legacies of colonialism but the intersections of language, authority, and history itself.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374719306

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9780374719302

Mount Pleasant

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

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Mount Pleasant

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

Originally published in French in 2011 by aEditions Philippe Rey, France, as Mont plaisant.

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A Trail of Crab Tracks

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

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A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

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9780374602994

When the Plums Are Ripe

A Novel

By: Patrice Nganang

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By: Patrice Nganang

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Dog Days

An Animal Chronicle

By: Alain Patrice Nganang

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Dog Days

An Animal Chronicle

By: Alain Patrice Nganang

In the vanguard of a new generation of writers, Nganang tells--"through the voice of a dog"--the story of an Africa born of military dictators and absolute poverty.

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University of Virginia Press

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German Colonialism Revisited

African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

By: Nina Berman,Klaus Muehlhahn,Patrice Nganang

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German Colonialism Revisited

African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

By: Nina Berman,Klaus Muehlhahn,Patrice Nganang

German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks that preceded and, as some now argue, ultimately structured German colonial rule. Going beyond issues of resistance, these essays present colonialism as a shared event from which both the colonized and the colonizers emerged changed.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472029703

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9780472029709

Book's by Patrice Nganang

Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant

A Trail of Crab Tracks

A Trail of Crab Tracks

Dog Days

Dog Days

When the Plums Are Ripe

When the Plums Are Ripe

Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant

A Trail of Crab Tracks

A Trail of Crab Tracks

When the Plums Are Ripe

When the Plums Are Ripe

Dog Days

Dog Days

German Colonialism Revisited

German Colonialism Revisited

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