Ebook {Epub PDF} When the Plums Are Ripe by Patrice Nganang

“Nganang is a political force whose experiences in Cameroon inform every page of this novel For those who appreciate how fiction illuminates history, [When the Plums Are Ripe] will be an eye-opener.” ―Library Journal “Nganang continues his rich, complex saga of WWII-era Cameroon with this second volume in a trilogy/5(1).  · “Nganang is a political force whose experiences in Cameroon inform every page of this novel For those who appreciate how fiction illuminates history, [When the Plums Are Ripe] will be an eye-opener.” —Library Journal “Nganang continues his rich, complex saga of WWII-era Cameroon with this second volume in a trilogyISBN  · When the Plums Are Ripe: A Novel by Patrice Nganang, Amy Baram Reid (Translator) | Editorial Reviews. Paperback $ Hardcover. $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free.

When The Plums Are Ripe By Patrice Nganang - FictionDB. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time period. Patrice Nganang. Image from www.doorway.ru The Cameroonian writer and Stony Brook literature professor Patrice Nganang, who in was arrested for criticising the country's year-ruling president Paul Biya, has a novel coming. When the Plums Are Ripe, which is translated from the French by Amy B. Reid, will be released by the American publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 13 August. By Patrice Nganang Translated By Amy B. Reid "When the Plums Are Ripe" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Patrice Nganang. Patrice Nganang's When the Plums Are Ripe, translated by Amy B. Reid and forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, recounts the story of Cameroon's forced entry into World War II, and in the process complicates our own understanding of that globe-spanning conflict.

But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world’s own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all their still-unsold plums into the embers.” In this novel of radiant lyricism, Patrice Nganang recounts the story of Cameroon’s forced. Review by Michael Magras. A little-known chapter of World War II history, at least to most Western readers, is the effect of the war on Cameroon, which was under French administration. In , Cameroon fell under Nazi control after France was occupied by Germany. Patrice Nganang chronicles the effect of these events on the small city of Edéa in When the Plums Are Ripe, a tale that is as poetic as it is harrowing. Patrice Nganang takes his place among the best of political satirists with his historical trilogy on 20th century Cameroon. When the Plums are Ripe, second in the series, brilliantly displays the collision between cultures, language and the meaning of patriotism in the face of world war.