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Descent Into Night (Unabridged) by Edem Awumey

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Descent Into Night (Unabridged)

Author
Edem Awumey
Narrator
Kevin Hanchard
Publisher
Bespeak Audio Editions
Publish Date
13 April 2021
Run Time
5 hours 24 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Historical fiction
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Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, Translation, 2018 From Goncourt Prize finalist Edem Awumey, a beautiful and brilliant new novel. With 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. Edem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity.

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Author
Edem Awumey
Narrator
Kevin Hanchard
Duration
5 hours 24 minutes
Release Date
13 April 2021
ISBN
9781773055572
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Bespeak Audio Editions
Genre
Historical fiction

Synopsis

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, Translation, 2018 From Goncourt Prize finalist Edem Awumey, a beautiful and brilliant new novel. With 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. Edem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity.

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