How beautiful we were :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
364 pages ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House, [2021]
Summary
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, Joy of the Oppressed is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghosts of colonialism, comes up against one village's quest for justice--and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom"--
Call Number
F MBUE
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780593132425 9780593229163 9780593132449
How beautiful we were :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
12 audio discs (14 hr., 8 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : Random House Audio, [2021]
Summary
In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price.
Call Number
AUDIOBOOK CD F MBUE
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780593209950
by
Mbue, Imbolo
Format:
eAudiobook
Electronic Format:
LIBBY AUDIOBOOK, MP3
Vendor
Libby
by
Mbue, Imbolo
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
Vendor
Libby
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