Dark Child

[This book] is a ... memoir of [the author's] youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. [He] marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than the autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world.-Back cover.

שנה

1954

שפה

English

הוצאה

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

מהדורות

1

עמודים

188

ISBN

9780374507688

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata