Book
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Mount Pleasant : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION NGAN (CEN)
Edition
First American edition.
Languages
Translated from the French.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Physical Description
368 pages illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists. Just nine years old and on the verge of becoming one of the sultan's hundreds of wives, Sara's story takes an unexpected turn when she is recognized by Bertha, the slave in charge of training Njoya's brides, as Nebu, the son she lost tragically years before. In Sara's new life as a boy she bears witness to the world of Sultan Njoya--a magical yet declining place of artistic and intellectual minds. Seven decades later, a student returns home to Cameroon to research the place it once was, and she finds Sara, silent for decades, ready to tell her story.
Notes
Originally published in French in 2011 by Éditions Philippe Rey, France.