- Title:
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How Beautiful We Were (MP3)
- Written by:
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Imbolo Mbue
- Read by:
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Allyson Johnson; Dion Graham; Lisa Renee Pitts; Janina Edwards; J.D. Jackson; Prentice Onayemi
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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14 hours 8 minutes
- MP3 size:
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617 MB
- Published:
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March 04 2021
- Available Date:
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March 04 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655675037
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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Price
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New York Times bestselling author
Award winning author
‘[Imbolo Mbue’s] writing is startlingly beautiful, thoughtful, and both timely and timeless.’
Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Red at the Bone
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations to the villagers are made – and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a steep price … one which generation after generation will have to pay.
Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.