Mount Pleasant : a novel / Patrice Nganang ; translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nganang, Alain Patrice, author.

Contributor:

Reid, Amy Baram, 1964- translator.

Standardized Title:

Mont Plaisant. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

History.

Colonization.

Cameroon--Colonization--History--20th century--Fiction.

Cameroon.

France--Colonies--Cameroon--History--Fiction.

France.

French colonies.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Novels.

Physical Description:

ix, 368 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists. Just nine years old and on the verge of becoming one of the sultan's hundreds of wives, Sara's story takes an unexpected turn when she is recognized by Bertha, the slave in charge of training Njoya's brides, as Nebu, the son she lost tragically years before. In Sara's new life as a boy she bears witness to the world of Sultan Njoya--a magical yet declining place of artistic and intellectual minds. Seven decades later, a student returns home to Cameroon to research the place it once was, and she finds Sara, silent for decades, ready to tell her story.

Notes:

Originally published in French in 2011 by Éditions Philippe Rey, France.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780374213855

0374213852

OCLC:

908628848

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