Description
In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing–the Xhosa people’s ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination–the novel expands its narrator’s search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Published: 09/15/1997
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780395877500
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.00″ W
Award: 1997 Boston Book Review Nominee – Fiction
About the Author
Wideman, John Edgar: – JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, and the story collection God’s Gym. He is the recipient of two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and has been nominated for the National Book Award.
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