How beautiful we were

Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel, set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, 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 dr...

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Yazar: Mbue, Imbolo (Yazar)
Materyal Türü: Elektronik Ekitap
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2020.
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