Days Come and Go

By: Boum, Hemley

Book Overview

Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna, a matriarch living out her final days in Paris; Abi, Anna's thoroughly European daughter (at least in her mother's eyes); and Tina, a teenager who comes under the sway of a militant terrorist faction, Boum's epic is generous and all-seeing. Brilliantly considering the many issues that dominate her characters' lives--love and politics, tradition and modernity--Days Come and Go, in Nchanji Njamnsi's vivid translation, is a page-turner by way of Frantz Fanon and V. S. Naipaul. As passions rise, fall, and rise again, Boum's stirring English-language debut offers a discerning portrait of a nation that never once diminishes the power of everyday human connection.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194964135X
• ISBN13: 9781949641356
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Two Lines Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 8.1"