Houseboy (African Writers)
"Houseboy" is written in the form of a diary kept by Toundi, an innocent Cameroonian houseboy who is fascinated and awed by the white world, the world of his masters. When the head of his mission is killed in an accident, Toundi becomes the "boy" of the local Commandant. In an effort to improve...
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"Houseboy" is written in the form of a diary kept by Toundi, an innocent Cameroonian houseboy who is fascinated and awed by the white world, the world of his masters. When the head of his mission is killed in an accident, Toundi becomes the "boy" of the local Commandant. In an effort to improve himself, Toundi studies his new world closely---too closely. Gradually his eyes are opened to its realities, and in the end it destroys him.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780435905323 (0435905325)
ASIN: 0435905325
Publish date: 1991-08-15
Publisher: Heinemann
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Another world fiction challenge book, my fourth in a month; I'm overdosed on these right now and need to take a break.This novella is purportedly the diary of a Cameroonian "houseboy" (actually a young man, though we never learn his age), which as it is fiction, of course doesn't read like any real ...
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