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020			_a0374507686 _q(pbk.)
020			_a9780374507688 _q(pbk.)
040			_aAZS _beng _cAZS _dOCL _dRMC _dVVW _dOCLCQ _dP4I _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dOCLCA _dDHA _dYBM _dOCL _dOCLCO _dOCLCA _dCIN
050	1	4	_aDT543 _b.L313 1954a
082	0	4	_a843 _222
100	1		_aCamara, Laye
245	1	4	_aThe dark child / _cCamara Laye ; with an introduction by Philippe Thoby-Marcellin ; [translated from the French by James Kirkup and Ernest Jones]
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c℗♭1954
300			_a188 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
500			_aTranslation of: L'enfant noir
500			_aAutobiographical story
500			_a"N 843"--Spine
520			_a[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
650		0	_aAfrican literature
650		0	_aAuthors, Guinean _y20th century _vBiography
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