How beautiful we were
Mbue, Imbolo2021
Book
"Tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water...The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation...Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
How beautiful we were / Imbolo Mbue.
Author:
Mbue, Imbolo, author
Work:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2021.©2021
Collation:
364 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781838851354 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
385438