Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle

by Patrice Nganang

Book Overview

"I am a dog," the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned not to expect too much from life. He can, however, observe the life around him--in his case the impoverished but dynamic Cameroon of the early 1990s, a time known as les ann es de braise (the smoldering years). When he isn't limited by the length of his master's leash, the perceptive, even ironic, Mboudjak wanders the streets of Yaounde, a capital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925355
• ISBN13: 9780813925356
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"