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The radiance of the king / Camara Laye ; translated from the French by James Kirkup ; introduction by Toni Morrison.

by Camara, Laye.

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New York Review Books, [2011]

Shipwrecks -- Fiction.

Africa, West -- Fiction.

9781590174555 (trade pbk.)

Regard du roi. English

xx, 279 p. ; 21 cm

Translated from the French.

"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."

French fiction -- Translations into English.

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