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Mount Pleasant : a novel
- Title
- Mount Pleasant : a novel / Patrice Nganang ; translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid.
- Author
- Nganang, Alain Patrice
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- ©2016
- ©2011
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Reid, Amy Baram, 1964-
- Description
- ix, 368 pages illustrations, map; 24 cm
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Mont Plaisant. English
- Alternative Title
- Mont Plaisant.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Note
- Originally published in French in 2011 by Éditions Philippe Rey, France.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1007
- ISBN
- 9780374213855
- 0374213852
- LCCN
- 2015035418
- OCLC
- 908628848
- Author
- Nganang, Alain Patrice, author.
- Title
- Mount Pleasant : a novel / Patrice Nganang ; translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- translation ©2016text ©2011
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Reid, Amy Baram, 1964- translator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1007