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The fire of origins : a novel / Emmanuel Dongala.
LIBRA Special PQ3989.2.D6 F4813 2001
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LIBRA PQ3989.2.D6 F4913 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dongala, Emmanuel Boundzéki, 1941-
- Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
- Standardized Title:
- Feu des origines. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- This novel centers on the actions of one man, Mankunku, a "destroyer", who is born in mysterious circumstances in a banana plantation, and whose identity is as mercurial as that of his land. Mythical, lyrical, powerful, surreal, and immensely ambitious, The Fire of Origins does for Africa what One Hundred Years of Solitude did for South America.
- Notes:
- "Translated by Lillian Corti, translation edited by Yuval Taylor"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 155652420X
- OCLC:
- 44046743
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