When the Plums Are Ripe

by Patrice Nganang

Book Overview

The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War II

In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the "time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world's own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374288992
• ISBN13: 9780374288990
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 9.0"