| The Radiance of the King Contributor(s): Laye, Camara (Author), Kirkup, James (Translator), Morrison, Toni (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590174550 ISBN-13: 9781590174555 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011534581 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.11" W x 8.02" (0.70 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence's bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king. |