000			02102nam a22003258i 4500
001			2019031375
003			DLC
005			20210219083939.0
008			190719s2020 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019031375
020			_a9780593132425 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9780593132432 _q(ebook)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3613.B84 _bH69 2020
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
100	1		_aMbue, Imbolo,
245	1	0	_aHow beautiful we were : _ba novel / _cby Imbolo Mbue.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2006
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2020]
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"'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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aMbue, Imbolo, _tHow beautiful we were _dNew York : Random House, [2020] _z9780593132432 _w(DLC) 2019031376
942			_cLEISURE
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