{"product_id":"cotton-blues-edem-awumey-9781774151778","title":"Cotton Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an African town somewhere between the Sahel and the Atlantic coast, cotton planter Toby Kunta takes a Berlin journalist hostage in a museum showroom. Kunta asks for compensation of several million francs for himself and a group of peasants ruined by the production of genetically modified cotton. As the tension rises inside the museum and a standoff begins with the chief of police, Kunta begins to burn the exhibited works one by one and threatens to do the same with his prisoner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith this standoff behind closed doors, where words and gestures get exchanged with anger and hope, Edem Awumey takes us on a contemporary journey on the cotton road, from the African Savannah to the American South, from the luxurious salons of Berlin to the fields of Indian Rajasthan sprayed with glyphosate, from the valleys of Uzbekistan covered with white fibre to the spinning mills of Dhaka in Bangladesh. It is the novel of the crossing of worlds in a struggle against the domination of the multinationals. It is the great lamentation of the African people enslaved to the thirst for wealth in the West. It is a cry of freedom too long held back that finally bursts out with thunderous violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edem Awumey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1774151774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781774151778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Edem Awumey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46233160089855,"sku":"9781774151778","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70ac60e3-be26-4317-b9fb-82f7e4b6aedc.jpg?v=1728992237","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cotton-blues-edem-awumey-9781774151778","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}