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Behold the dreamers : a novel
- Title
- Behold the dreamers : a novel / Imbolo Mbue.
- Author
- Mbue, Imbolo
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [2016]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 16-1647 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- 382 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- 2007. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. Working as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, he displays the punctuality, discretion, and loyalty that Edwards demands. Neni's temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons means a brighter future--until Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers' façades. As the financial world threatens to collapse, the Jongas become desperate. And as their marriage threatens to fall apart, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
- Uniform Title
- Longings of Jende Jonga
- Alternative Title
- Longings of Jende Jonga
- Subject
- Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
- 2008-2009
- Cameroonians > United States > Fiction
- Immigrants > Fiction
- Upper class > United States > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- Family secrets > Fiction
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 > Fiction
- FICTION > Cultural Heritage
- FICTION > Family Life
- FICTION > Literary
- Cameroonians
- Families
- Family secrets
- Immigrants
- Upper class
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York
- New York (State) > New York > Harlem
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Awards (note)
- Pen/Faulkner Award, 2017.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1647
- ISBN
- 9780812998481
- 0812998480
- 9780812989847
- 0812989848
- LCCN
- 2015011560
- OCLC
- 906798285
- Author
- Mbue, Imbolo, author.
- Title
- Behold the dreamers : a novel / Imbolo Mbue.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, [2016]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Awards
- Pen/Faulkner Award, 2017.
- Chronological Term
- 2008-2009
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1647JFE 16-10145