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050 00 $aPQ3989.2.N4623$bS3513 2019
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100 1 $aNganang, Alain Patrice,$eauthor.
240 10 $aSaison des prunes.$lEnglish
245 10 $aWhen the plums are ripe /$cPatrice Nganang ; translated from the French by Amy B. Reid.
250 $aFirst American edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2013
300 $a348 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
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520 $aIn Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the "time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world's own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all their still-unsold plums into the embers." In this novel of radiant lyricism, Patrice Nganang recounts the story of Cameroon's forced entry into World War II, and in the process complicates our own understanding of that globe-spanning conflict. After the fall of France in 1940, Cameroon found itself caught between Vichy and the Free French at a time when growing nationalism advised allegiance to neither regime, and was ultimately dragged into fighting throughout North Africa on behalf of the Allies.Moving from Pouka's story to the campaigns of the French general Leclerc and the battles of Kufra and Murzuk, Nganang questions the colonial record and recenters African perspectives at the heart of Cameroon's national history, all the while writing with wit and panache. When the Plums Are Ripe is a brilliantly crafted, politically charged epic that challenges not only the legacies of colonialism but also the intersections of language, authority, and history itself.
546 $aTranslated from the French.
651 0 $aCameroon$xColonization$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
651 0 $aFrance$xColonies$zCameroon$xHistory$vFiction.
655 7 $aNovels.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01921742
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2lcgft
655 7 $aNovels.$2lcgft
700 1 $aReid, Amy Baram,$d1964-$etranslator.
852 00 $bglx$hPQ3989.2.N4623$iS3513 2019