The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics)
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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
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Text: English, French (translation)
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The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics)
The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics),Camara Laye,Toni Morrison,New York Review Books,0940322587,African Novel And Short Story,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Guinea,Literary,Fiction / General,Fiction / Literary,Modern fiction
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