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Heremakhonon / Maryse Condé ; translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
- Title
- Heremakhonon / Maryse Condé ; translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
- Author
- Condé, Maryse
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | PQ3949.2.C65 H413 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Philcox, Richard
- Description
- 168 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Nouadhibou is a jumping off point from West Africa to Europe and the Americas. Its inhabitants, many recently arrived or preparing to leave, all hope for a better future, a longing summed up by the title (translation: Waiting for Happiness). Abdallah comes to visit his mother before emigrating to Europe. Unable to speak the local dialect, he keeps to himself, observing the villagers from a distance, reading and watching French TV. The orphan boy, Khatra, apprentice and adoptive son to waits for and fears Maata's death, the moment when he'll be his own master. A Chinese immigrant gives voice to the feeling of permanent exile. But amid this rootlessness, strong traditions live on. [The book] embraces the rhythms of a patient people, while the dreamlike passage of time and windswept desert locale create an aura of comforting timelessness, broken only by an exploding lightbulb or a sudden death. Maybe, muses Sissako, Waiting is actually the happiness.-http://www.facesea.org.
- Uniform Title
- Hérémakhonon. English
- Alternative Title
- Hérémakhonon.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, c1982.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0894108867 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99034531^
- OCLC
- 82845189
- SCSB-10943427
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library