How Beautiful We Were

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Beschreibung

'Sweeping and quietly devastating' New York Times<br>'A David and Goliath story for our times' O, the Oprah Magazine<br>Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a steep price . . . one which generation after generation will have to pay.<br><br>Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781838851378

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 26 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Canongate Books Ltd.