Description
Product ID: | 9781590174555 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | The Radiance Of The King |
Authors: | Author: Camara Lays |
Page Count: | 312 |
Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | NYRB Classics |
Publisher Name: | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-08-16 |