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Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and broken. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But it will come at a steep price - one which generation after generation will have to pay. How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.
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How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2022
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- Título
- How Beautiful We Were
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Imbolo Mbue
- Editorial
- Canongate Books Ltd.
- Publicado en
- 2022
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 368
- ISBN10
- 1838851372
- ISBN13
- 9781838851378
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, Ficción contemporánea, África, Camerún
- Calificación
- 3,9 de 5
- Descripción
- Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and broken. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But it will come at a steep price - one which generation after generation will have to pay. How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.