Description
| Product ID: | 9781913109011 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A LONG WAY FROM DOUALA |
| Authors: | Author: Max Lobe, Ros Schwartz |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Two brothers set out on a journey from Douala to the far north of the Cameroon to find their brother who is on his way to Europe via traffickers in search of fame as a footballer. On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when, at a pit stop, Simon goes wandering in search of grilled caterpillars. At the police station in Yaounde, the local cop tells them that a feckless boza who wants to go to Europe is not worth police effort and their mother should go and pleasure the police chief if she wants help! Through a series of joyful sparky vignettes, Cameroon life is revealed in all its ups and downs. Issues of life and death are raised but the tone remains light and edgy. |
| Imprint Name: | Small Axes |
| Publisher Name: | HopeRoad Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-02-25 |