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Synopsis
Book by Sembene, Ousmane
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About the Author
Sembene Ousmane is from Senegal. He is the author of Xala, Black Docker, Niiwam and Taaw and The Money Order with White Genesis.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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- PublisherLawrence Hill
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0882080679
- ISBN 13 9780882080673
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages114
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Xala
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Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 1976
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Xala
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Lawrence Hill & Co, (Westport, Connecticut), 1976
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. Translated by Clive Wake. Octavo. 114pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Cloth boards moderately soiled, spine ends and corners bumped, else very good in a good only edgeworn dust jacket with spine sunned, spine ends and corners chipped. Senegalese novelist and film maker. Seller Inventory # 588728
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Xala
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Lawrence Hill & Company, New York, 1976
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hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1976. Lawrence Hill & Company. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0882080679. Translated from the French by Clive Wake. 114 pages. hardcover. keywords: Africa Senegal Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonializer in French-speaking Africa. XALA is the story of a El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye, a rich businessman struck by what he believes to be a curse of impotence ('xala' in Wolof) on the night of his wedding to his beautiful, young third wife. El Hadji grows obsessed with removing the curse through visits to marabouts, but only after losing most of his money and reputation does he discover the source to be the beggar who lives outside his offices, whom he wronged in acquiring his fortune. inventory #28281 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z28281
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