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Houseboy

Author: Ferdinand Oyono
Publisher: Oxford : Heinemann, 1990, ©1966.
Series: African writers series, 29.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Cameroonian houseboy Toundi dreams of advancement and so studies the world of his white masters closely. "Gradually his eyes are opened to its realities, and in the end this leads to tragic consequences because the Europeans cannot endure the gaze of the man they have destroyed."--P. [4] of cover.
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Genre/Form: Diary fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ferdinand Oyono
ISBN: 0435905325 9780435905323
OCLC Number: 26478011
Notes: Translation of: Une vie de boy.
Description: 122 p. ; 19 cm.
Series Title: African writers series, 29.
Responsibility: Ferdinand Oyono ; translated from the French by John Reed.

Abstract:

Cameroonian houseboy Toundi dreams of advancement and so studies the world of his white masters closely. "Gradually his eyes are opened to its realities, and in the end this leads to tragic consequences because the Europeans cannot endure the gaze of the man they have destroyed."--P. [4] of cover.
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