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Onitsha

Title
Onitsha / J.M.G. Le Clézio ; translated by Alison Anderson.
Author
Le Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave), 1940-
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Anderson, Alison.
Description
206 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. But gradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and brutality of the colonial system. His youthful point of view provides the novel with a notably direct, horrified perspective on racism and colonialism.
  • A startling account - and indictment - of colonialism, Onitsha is also a work of clear, forthright prose that ably portrays both colonial Nigeria and a young boy's growing outrage.
Uniform Title
Onitsha. English
Alternative Title
Onitsha.
ISBN
  • 0803229151 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 0803279663 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
96032612
OCLC
  • 35049672
  • ocm35049672
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries