Batouala
ISBN 978-0-435-90135-6 / 0-435-90135-4 / 1988 / 156pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann
Availability: In Stock
Grade Level: College
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You smell the smells of the village, you eat its food, you see the white man as the black man sees him, and after you have lived in the village you die there. That is all there is to the story, but when you have read it, you have seen Batouala, and that means that it is a great novel.
—Ernest HemingwayFrench African prose can be given a beginning with the publication in 1921 of the novel Batouala . . . its sensitive portrayal of African life, with its evocation of the natural environment, could not but make a profound impression upon its African readers and offered a vivid example of what an African novel in French could be.
—Abiola Irele
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You smell the smells of the village, you eat its food, you see the white man as the black man sees him, and after you have lived in the village you die there. That is all there is to the story, but when you have read it, you have seen Batouala , and that means that it is...”
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