Cameroon novels
Author
Author
Series
Cameroon novels volume 1
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, a ruler cast into exile by French colonialists. Merely nine years old, she is on the verge of becoming the sultan’s 681st wife. But when she is dragged to Bertha, the long-suffering slave charged with training Njoya’s brides, Sara’s life takes a curious turn. Bertha sees within this little girl her son Nebu, who died tragically years before, and...
Author
Series
Cameroon novels volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the worlds own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all their still-unsold plums into the...
Author
Series
Cameroon novels volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to When the Plums Are Ripe, Patrice Nganang writes of a sick father telling his son about the life he lived in Cameroon, the story of his family, the civil war, and his country"--