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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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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
  • Black people > Race identity > Fiction
  • Africa, West > Politics and government > Fiction
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