Mount Pleasant (Paperback)

In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists, when she is just nine years old. Sara's story takes an unexpected turn when she is recognised by Bertha, the slave in charge of training Njoya's brides, as Nebu, the son she lost tragically years before. In her new life as a boy, she bears witness to the world of Sultan Njoya - a magical yet declining place of artistic and intellectual minds. Seven decades later, a student returns home to Cameroon to research the place it once was, and she finds Sara, silent for decades, ready to tell her story. In her serpentine tale, a lost kingdom lives again in the compromised intersection between flawed memory, tangled fiction, and faintly discernible truth. The award-winning novelist Patrice Nganang's lyrical and majestic Mount Pleasant is a resurrection of the world of early-twentieth-century Cameroon and an elegy for the men and women swept up in the forces of colonisation. For readers of Maaza Mengiste and Taiye Selasi.

General

Imprint:	Picador USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2017
Authors:	Patrice Nganang; Translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid
Dimensions:	222 x 142 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-1-250-11841-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-250-11841-7
Barcode:	9781250118417

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