How beautiful we were

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Mbue, Imbolo

Verfasser Angabe:
Imbolo Mbue

Sprache:
Englisch

• Ausbeutung
• Englisch
• Kolonialismus
• Afrika
• Junge Frau
• Widerstand

Verlag:
Canongate Books

Erscheinungsort:
Edinburgh

Jahr:
2021

Umfang:
360 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-83885-135-4

Inhalt:
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells 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 ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a steep price ... one which generation after generation will have to pay.

Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, 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.

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