Descent into night : a novel

Awumey, Edem 1975- (author.). Aronoff, Phyllis, 1945- (translator.). Scott, Howard, 1952- (translator.). Hanchard, Kevin, (narrator.).

Summary: With a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. While distributing leaflets with provocative quotations from Beckett, Ito Baraka is taken to a camp where torture, starvation, beatings, and rape are normal. Forced to inform on his friends, whose fates he now fears, and released a broken man, he is enabled to escape to Quebec. His one goal is to tell the story of the protest and pay homage to Koli Lem, a teacher, cellmate, and lover of books, who was blinded by being forced to look at the sun-and is surely a symbol of the nation.

Record details

ISBN: 1773055577
ISBN: 9781773055572
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (05 hr., 25 min., 26 sec.)) : digital
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Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Bespeak Audio Editions, ECW Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Container incorrectly list Emmanuel Kabongo as the narrator.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Kevin Hanchard.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed January 31, 2022).