TY  - BOOK
AU  - Camara,Laye
TI  - The dark child
SN  - 0374507686
AV  - DT543 .L313 1954a
U1  - 843 22
PY  - 1954///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - African literature
KW  - Authors, Guinean
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
N1  - Translation of: L'enfant noir; Autobiographical story; "N 843"--Spine
N2  - [This book] is a ... memoir of [the author's] youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. [He] marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than the autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world
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