The Resource How beautiful we were : a novel, Imbolo Mbue
How beautiful we were : a novel, Imbolo Mbue
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The item How beautiful we were : a novel, Imbolo Mbue represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut).This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item How beautiful we were : a novel, Imbolo Mbue represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, Joy of the Oppressed is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghosts of colonialism, comes up against one village's quest for justice--and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- How beautiful we were : a novel
- Title
- How beautiful we were
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Imbolo Mbue
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, Joy of the Oppressed is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghosts of colonialism, comes up against one village's quest for justice--and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mbue, Imbolo
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3613.B84
- LC item number
- H69 2021
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Villages
- Oil spills
- Environmental degradation
- Corporations
- Africa
- Label
- How beautiful we were : a novel, Imbolo Mbue
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1239321750
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593132449
- Lccn
- 2019031375
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1239321750
- Label
- How beautiful we were : a novel, Imbolo Mbue
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1239321750
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593132449
- Lccn
- 2019031375
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1239321750
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