The cattle killing
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Author
Publication
1996 - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
53,000 words, Guess
Page Count
212 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL981695M
- ISBN-100395785901
- OCLC Control Number34564951
- OCLC Control Numbercattlekilling00wide
- Library of Congress Control Number96019305
and 2 more
- LibraryThing3752287
- Goodreads3544089
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3573.I26 C38 1996
Description
In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young black itinerant preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets him into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black, white over black. Spiraling outward from its core image of the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination - the cattle killing - the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, England, and South Africa of yesterday and today.
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