Ville Cruelle

by BOTO, Eza [pseud. of Mongo Beti (a.k.a. Alexandre Biyidi Awala)]

$30 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Paris: Présence Africaine, [1971]. 12mo (17.25cm.); original yellow and red pictorial card wrappers; 223pp. Fine. Cameroonian author's first novel, originally published pseudonymously in 1954. Bildungsroman set in pre-independent Cameroon, originally published as a means of communicating the author's ideas regarding the colonial presence in Africa with minimal consideration to style..... More

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