All That Blue - Softcover

Effa, Gaston-Paul

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11 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901969088 ISBN 13: 9781901969085

Publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd, 2002

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Douo Papus, the narrator of this eloquent novel by a prize-winning French author, mourns his ravaged African childhood as he recounts how, at age five, he was handed over by his impassive father and grief-stricken mother to the missionary nuns in French colonial Africa, as was the custom in his village. Now, as an adult, he looks back at the nine years he spent in the convent school and the pain that has compelled him ever since to seek his absent father through the teaching of priests-and his mother's love in the arms of every woman he seduces. "A beautiful book. A classic."--The Independent

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About the Author:

Gaston-Paul Effa was born in Cameroon in 1965 and moved to France at the age of 16. He is the author of Ma.

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"A beautiful book. A classic." -- "The Independent"

"A beautiful book. A classic." --"The Independent"

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