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Batouala; a true Black novel. / By René Maran. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou.
LIBRA - Rare PQ3949.M247 B3813 1974 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maran, René, 1887-1960.
- Series:
- Fawcett premier book
- A Fawcett premier book ; P707
- Standardized Title:
- Batouala. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Villages--Africa--Fiction.
- Villages.
- African fiction (French)--Translations into English.
- African fiction (French).
- Caribbean fiction (French)--Translations into English.
- Caribbean fiction (French).
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : map ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1974.
- Notes:
- "Fawcett World Library"
- Originally published in 1921 by Albin Michel; it received the Prix Goncourt in 1922. The author's approved "édition définitive" appeared under the same imprint in 1938. This is the first English edition of the definitive edition.
- Published in 1972 by Black Orpheus Press, Inc.
- "November 1974"--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- OCLC:
- 1994610
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