Overview
At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with 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 gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. 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 humanity in the alien splendor of the king.
- | Author: Camara Lays
- | Publisher: New York Review Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 16, 2011
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781590174555
- | ISBN-10: 1590174550
