The radiance of the king
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Author
Contributions
- Kirkup, James, 1918- - Contributor
Publication
2001 - The New York Review Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
69,750 words, Guess
Page Count
279 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveradianceofking00cama
- ISBN-139780940322585
- ISBN-100940322587
- LibraryThing375980
- Goodreads123781
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001001684
- OCLC Control Number46500754
- Better World Books9780940322585
- Open LibraryOL3937735M
Classifications
- DDC843/.914
- LCCPQ3989.C27 R413 2001
- LCCPQ3989.C27R413 2001
and 2 more
- DDC843
- LCCPQ3989.C27 R4x 1975
Description
"At the beginning of this book, a masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked and stranded on the coast of Africa. Brimful of self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is slowly stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold as a slave to the royal harem. But in the end Clarence's bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own strange humanity in the alien figure of the king."--BOOK JACKET.
Description
"At the beginning of this book, a masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked and stranded on the coast of Africa. Brimful of self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is slowly stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold as a slave to the royal harem. But in the end Clarence's bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own strange humanity in the alien figure of the king."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genres
- Fiction
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