Image | |
EAN-13 | 9780312569235 |
Product Name | Black Mamba Boy: A Novel |
Category | Book / Magazine / Publication |
Short Description | Height:0.8 inches / Length:7.9 inches / Weight:0.65 pounds / Width:5.1 inches |
Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon ~ 0312569238 |
SKU | NL9780312569235 |
Price New | 4.05 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Price Used | 2.84 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Width | 0.67 inches (convert) |
Height | 8.5 inches (convert) |
Length | 5.5 inches (convert) |
Weight | 10.4 ounces (convert) |
Author | Nadifa Mohamed |
Page Count | 304 |
Binding | Paperback |
Published | 08/02/2011 |
Long Description | Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother―alternately raging and loving―dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life's meager savings on a search for his never-seen father; the rumors that travel along clan lines report that he is a driver for the British somewhere in the north. So begins Jama's extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles north all the way to Egypt, by camel, by truck, by train, but mostly on foot. He slings himself from one perilous city to another, fiercely enjoying life on the road and relying on his vast clan network to shelter him and point the way to his father, who always seems just a day or two out of reach. In his travels, Jama will witness scenes of great humanity and brutality; he will be caught up in the indifferent, grinding machine of war; he will crisscross the Red Sea in search of working papers and a ship. Bursting with life and a rough joyfulness, Black Mamba Boy is debut novelist Nadifa Mohamed's vibrant, moving celebration of her family's own history. |
Similar Items | 9780385474542: Things Fall Apart 9780231076517: Things Fall Apart 9780140052619: Things Fall Apart 9780312248802: Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents 9780060798680: Beasts Of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.) 9780349120645: Say You're One of Them 9781594631771: This Is How You Lose Her 9780809015481: The Dark Child: The Autobiography Of An African Boy 9780803282858: The Oldest Orphan 9780141048437: Preparation For Death,A View 36 more similar items |
Created | 07-01-2013 12:42:44am |
Modified | 04-30-2020 6:12:06pm |
MD5 | 2538e105bae6aaed7dc7e1370e5f2526 |
SHA256 | f1034e6012fa715347b7a63574af69d3793bc4ea217a1e49cccd14177326d48a |
Search Google | by EAN or by Title |
Query Time | 0.0281289 |
An article of interest
Site News and Events
Internet issues beyond our control
Sorry folks for the slow and spotty service to our site yesterday (1/10/2013). There was work being done in the area and it caused general service interuptions.
We experienced poor internet accessability and noticed far fewer visitors than normal to the site. There was a point over night when all internet service went down. We contacted our ISP this morning to find out they were performing maintenance in our area and had to shut down a hub station at one point.
The maintenance in general caused a bottle neck for data in our area and shutting down the hub took us completely off-line for almost an hour.
This is regretable but well beyond our control. We are sorry if this impacted you and access to our data.