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      Radiance of the King

      by Camara Laye
      Published
      Nov 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      279
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      At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence's bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king.

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      First Edition Nov 1989 Vintage ISBN13 9780679722007 ISBN10 0679722009
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      May 2001 New York Review of Books ISBN13 9780940322585 ISBN10 0940322587
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      Aug 2011 New York Review of Books ISBN13 9781590174555 ISBN10 1590174550
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