The dark child

ISBN: 0374507686
ISBN: 9780374507688
Descripción física: 188 pages ; 21 cm
Editorial: New York : Noonday Press, 1954.

Book

The dark child / Camara Laye ; with an introduction by Philippe Thoby-Marcellin ; translated by James Kirkup, Ernest Jones, Elaine Gottlieb.

Camara, Laye. (Autor). Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975 (writer of introduction.). Kirkup, James, 1918-2009 (translator.). Jones, Ernest, (translator.). Gottlieb, Elaine, (translator.).

Resumen:

[This book] is a ... memoir of [the author's] youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. [He] marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than the autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world.-Back cover.