Mount Pleasant
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Author
Contributions
- Reid, Amy Baram, 1964- translator - Contributor
Publication
2016 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
92,000 words, Guess
Page Count
368 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemountpleasantnov0000ngan
- ISBN-100374213852
- ISBN-139780374213855
- Library of Congress Control Number2015035418
- OCLC Control Number908628848
and 4 more
- Better World BooksO7-BBN-836
- Better World Books9780374213855
- Better World Books079-BAA-176
- Open LibraryOL27205391M
Classifications
- DDC843/.92
- LCCPQ3989.2.N4623 M6613 2016
- LCCPQ3989.2.N4623M6613
Description
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.
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