Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Diop, Boubacar Boris, 1946-

Title Kaveena / Boubacar Boris Diop ; translated by Bhakti Shringarpure and Sara C. Hanaburgh ; foreword by Ayo A. Coly
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Global African voices
Global African voices.
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; KAVEENA
Summary This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist. Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator, N'Zo Nikiema, readers discover the role of the French shadow leader, Pierre Castaneda, whose ongoing ambition to exploit the natural resources of the country knows no limits. As these powerful men use others as pawns in a violent real-life chess match, it is the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother's quest for vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning
Notes Print version record
Subject FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Political.
SUBJECT Africa, West -- Fiction
Subject West Africa
Genre/Form Political fiction
Novels.
Political fiction.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Shringarpure, Bhakti, translator.
Hanaburgh, Sara, translator.
ISBN 9780253020567
0253020565
Other Titles Kaveena. English