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The Dark Child
The Dark Child
Author: Laye Camara, Camara Laye
The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374507688
ISBN-10: 0374507686
Publication Date: 1/1954
Pages: 199
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
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An African coming of age story set among the Malinke of people of French Guinea. Fascinating tour of a distant culture.


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