{"product_id":"scale-boy-patrice-nganang","title":"Scale Boy (Patrice Nganang)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa-complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDog Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eA Trail of Crab Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a 2022 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country's history and in his life.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScale Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one's community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man's coming-of-age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePatrice Nganang \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Cameroon and is a novelist, a poet, and an essayist. His novel \u003ci\u003eDog Days\u003c\/i\u003e received 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), \u003ci\u003eWhen the Plums Are Ripe\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2019), and \u003ci\u003eA Trail of Crab Tracks \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2022). He teaches comparative literature at Stony Brook University in New York.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), With dust jacket, Englisch, 464 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65815826563421,"sku":"K010046190","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1004619000001A.jpg?v=1788580859","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/scale-boy-patrice-nganang","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}