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HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE - IMBOLO MBUE (HÖRBUCH)

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil
company in this sweeping  inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold
the Dreamers.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times  People ONE OF THE BEST
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ReviewsMbue reaches for the moon and  by the novel s end  has it firmly held in her hand. NPRWe
should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue s powerful second novel  How
Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa  it tells of a people living
in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have
rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup
and financial reparations to the villagers are made and ignored. The country s government  led
by a brazen dictator  exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices  the people of
Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep
price.Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a 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 ghost 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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