Isbn: 9781542037877 - the blunder: a novel (7 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. From a bold voice in African fiction comes a satirical and unputdownable reimagining of an overlooked episode in Cameroon?s colonial past. Cameroon, 1929. As colonial powers fight for influence in Africa, French military surgeon Euge?ne Jamot is dispatched to Cameroon to lead the fight against sleeping sickness there. But despite his humanitarian intentions, the worst comes to pass: seven hundred local villagers are left blind as a result of medical malpractice by a doctor under Jamot?s watch. Damienne Bourdin, a young white woman, ventures to Cameroon to assist in the treatment effort. Reeling from the loss of her child, she?s desperate to redeem herself and save her reputation. But the tides of rebellion are churning in Cameroon, and soon after Damienne?s arrival, she is enlisted in a wild plot to staunch the damage caused by the blunder and forestall tribal warfare. Together with Ndongo, a Pygmy guide, she must cross the country on foot in search of Edoa, a Cameroonian princess and nurse who has gone missing since the medical blunder was discovered. As Damienne races through the Cameroonian forest on a farcical adventure that unsettles her sense of France?s ?civilizing mission,? she begins to question her initial sense of who needed saving and who would save the day.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 138 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.