Patrice Nganang: Scale Boy, Gebunden
Scale Boy
- An African Childhood
- Publisher:
- Macmillan USA, 01/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374614515
- Item number:
- 12181759
- Volume:
- 464 Pages
- other:
- 70 Black-and-White Images Throughout
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 20.1.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa-complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.
Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days , Mount Pleasant , and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks , which was a 2022 New Yorker 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.
Scale Boy 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.
Biography
Patrice Nganang, geboren 1970 in Yaounde, der Hauptstadt von Kamerun. Studium der Literaturwissenschaft in Yaounde, Frankfurt und Berlin. Seit 2000 lebt er in den USA, tätig dort als Assistant Professor für Französisch und Deutsch an der Universität Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Gedichte- und Lyrikpublikationen und literaturtheoretische Arbeiten. Auszeichnungen: 2001 mit dem 'Prix Litteraire Marguerite Youncenar' und 2002 mit dem 'Grand Prix Litteraire de l'Afrique noir'.