{"product_id":"descent-into-night-edem-awumey-9781988449166","title":"Descent Into Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award, Translation, 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Goncourt Prize finalist Edem Awumey, a beautiful and brilliant new novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. While distributing leaflets with provocative quotations from Beckett, Ito Baraka is taken to a camp where torture, starvation, beatings, and rape are normal. Forced to inform on his friends, whose fates he now fears, and released a broken man, he is enabled to escape to Quebec. His one goal is to tell the story of the protest and pay homage to Koli Lem, a teacher, cellmate, and lover of books, who was blinded by being forced to look at the sun--and is surely a symbol of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edem Awumey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1988449162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988449166\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 11\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2018 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/25\/2019","brand":"Edem Awumey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940705173759,"sku":"9781988449166","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_970eb067-6230-4b8c-a883-c463cbd667b7.jpg?v=1681448718","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/descent-into-night-edem-awumey-9781988449166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}