| Descent Into Night Contributor(s): Awumey, Edem (Author), Aronoff, Phyllis (Translator), Scott, Howard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1988449162 ISBN-13: 9781988449166 Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd. OUR PRICE: $18.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 843.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (1.30 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction. Translated from the French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. From Goncourt Prize finalist a beautiful and brilliant new novel. With a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. While distributing leaflets with provocative quotations from Beckett, Ito Baraka is taken to a camp where torture, starvation, beatings, and rape are normal. Forced to inform on his friends, whose fates he now fears, and released a broken man, he is enabled to escape to Quebec. His one goal is to tell the story of the protest and pay homage to Koli Lem, a teacher, cellmate, and lover of books, who was blinded by being forced to look at the sun--and is surely a symbol of the nation. Edem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Awumey, Edem: - Goncourt Prize finalist Edem Awumey was born in Togo in 1975. His first novel, Port-Mélo (2006), was published in France by Gallimard, and was winner of one of Africa's most distinguished literary awards. Les Pieds sales was long-listed for the Goncourt in 2009. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec. |