EAN: 9780593132449

HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE - IMBOLO MBUE KARTONIERT ...

'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  How
Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit
coupled with the ghosts of colonialism  comes up against one community's determination to hold
on to its ancestral land--and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake
of her people's freedom. --

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