The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born: A Novel

by [POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE] ARMAH, Ayi Kwei

$500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. The Ghanaian author's first novel, centered around the life of an unnamed protagonist trying to make his way in post-independence Ghana. "It was a bombshell, and its appearance caused as great an explosion in Ghana as Tutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard had caused in Nigeria...Scatological..... More

• Printing: first

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