The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics)
Book Details
- Author
- Camara Laye
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Classics
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781590174555
- ISBN-10
- 1590174550
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ISBN: 1590174550
Author: Laye, Camara
Condition: New
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 Clarences 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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