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    The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye, Laye Camara, James Kirkup (Translator)

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    (Paperback)

    • Pub. Date: May 2001
    • 288pp
    • Sales Rank: 358,549

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      • Pub. Date: May 2001
      • Publisher: New York Review of Books
      • Format: Paperback, 288pp
      • Sales Rank: 358,549

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      At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence’s bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king

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