The Cattle Killing (Paperback)

In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.

General

Imprint:	Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	September 1997
Authors:	John Edgar Wideman
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-395-87750-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-395-87750-4
Barcode:	9780395877500

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