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Houseboy

Houseboy

Oyono, Ferdinand, 1929-2010, author.
Book 1966

Cameroonian houseboy Toundi dreams of advancement and so studies the world of his white masters closely. "Gradually his eyes are opened to its realities, and in the end this leads to tragic consequences because the Europeans cannot endure the gaze of the man they have destroyed.

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Cameroon Fiction
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Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 140 pages ; 21 cm
Other Title:
Vie de boy. English
Notes:
Originally published as Une vie de boy. Paris, Julliard, 1958
Translated from the French
LCCN:
66070765
Control Number:
3309935
Other Authors:
Reed, John, 1929-2012, translator
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