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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781086803321

Autore

Alobwed'Epie Charles

Titolo

The day God blinked [[electronic resource] /] / Alobwed'Epie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda, : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG

[East Lansing?], : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-19784-7

9956-715-27-1

9786613197849

9956-715-39-5

9956-615-88-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (117 p.)

Soggetti

Cameroonian fiction (English)

Cameroonian literature (English)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A novel.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Prologue; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The Day God Blinked x-rays the politico-economic and socio-moral life of a rich and resourceful country called Ewawa from 1982 to 2007. The country had been ruled by a dynamic and insightful miser known as the Old Man. But because he had been in power for too long, his citizens longed for change. It happened when nobody expected it. The old man died suddenly in his sleep and was replaced by his handpicked successor. Unfortunately, the successor whom everybody had expected would do better plunged the country into terrible economic and moral crises. Lucia, the protagonist, narrates her predicame