{"product_id":"mount-pleasant-paperback","title":"Mount Pleasant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrice Nganang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA majestic tale of colonialism and transformation, Patrice Nganang's \u003ci\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c\/i\u003e tells the astonishing story of the birth of modern Cameroon, a place subject to the whims of the French and the Germans, yet engaged in a cultural revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, a ruler cast into exile by French colonialists. Merely nine years old, she is on the verge of becoming the sultan's 681st wife. But when she is dragged to Bertha, the long-suffering slave charged with training Njoya's brides, Sara's life takes a curious turn. Bertha sees within this little girl her son Nebu, who died tragically years before, and she saves Sara from her fate by disguising her as her son. In Sara's new life as a boy she bears witness to the world of Sultan Njoya---a magical yet vulnerable community of artists and intellectuals---and learns of the sultan's final days in the Palace of All Dreams and the sad fate of Nebu, the greatest artist their culture had ever seen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeven decades later, a student returns home to Cameroon to learn about the place it once was, and she finds Sara, silent for years, ready to tell her story. But her serpentine tale, entangled by flawed memory and bursts of the imagination, reinvents history anew. The award-winning novelist Patrice Nganang's\u003ci\u003e Mount Pleasant\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical resurrection of early-twentieth-century Cameroon and an elegy to the people swept up in the forces of colonization.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrice Nganang\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Cameroon and is a novelist, a poet, and an essayist. His novel \u003ci\u003eDog Days\u003c\/i\u003e recieved the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar and the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eWhen the Plums Are Ripe \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2019). He teaches comparative literature at Stony Brook University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693715623999,"sku":"9781250118417","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e0845c96980493fc64253c11496c2f13.webp?v=1764999727","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/mount-pleasant-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}