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A Few Nights and Days de Mbella Sonne Dipoko

A Few Nights and Days

Autor Mbella Sonne Dipoko
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2024
From critically-acclaimed author Mbella Sonne Dipoko, A Few Days and Nights follows the dramatic love life of a young Cameroonian student as he faces the obstacles of living as a Black man in France. When Doumbe makes the journey from Cameroon to Paris to study, he dreams of becoming a writer. Living in the city of love, however, quickly begins to take its toll on his romantic life.Despite falling for a French girl, Thérèse, and vowing to leave his womanising's ways behind, he can't resist falling back into old habits when he meets her beautiful best friend. Neither Thérèse's suffering nor her father's disapproval of her African boyfriend can convince him to give up his unfaithful lifestyle. But a tragic event suddenly forces Doumbe to face the consequences of his actions... A Few Days and Nights paints a vivid picture of 1960s Paris through the eyes of its students, detailing their hopes, failures, and experiences of deep prejudice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781035900770
ISBN-10: 1035900777
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

First published in 1966, A Few Days and Nights is set in Paris, France during the 60s and is based on Dipoko's own experiences as a student. Following A Few Days and Nights, two of Dipoko's later works were also published in the African Writers Series. This includes his most well-known novel, Because of Women (1969), and a volume of poetry, Black and White in Love (1972). His most popular poem, 'Our History (To Precolonial Africa)', continues to be widely anthologised and studied in curriculums worldwide.

Notă biografică

Mbella Sonne Dipoko was a novelist, poet, and playwright born in 1936 in Douala, Cameroon. He grew up in the Tiko region, where his father was Chief of Misaka. Dipoko worked as an accounts clerk for the Cameroon Development Corporation before moving to the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in 1957 as a French reporter. In 1960, he moved to France permanently to study Law and Economics at the University of Paris but chose to pursue a career in writing instead. His debut novel, A Few Days and Nights (1966) earned him the reputation as a leading writer in France while his plays also began being broadcasted over the BBC. After moving to the U.S. to earn a degree in Anglo-American studies, Dipoko took up his late father's title of Chief of Misaka and returned to Tiko, Cameroon where he continued to write poetry, short stories, plays and literary criticism in French and English. He died in 2009.