9780593132449-0593132440-How Beautiful We Were: A Novel

How Beautiful We Were: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780593132449
ISBN-10: 0593132440
Edition: Reprint
Author: Imbolo Mbue
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 384 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780593132449
ISBN-10: 0593132440
Edition: Reprint
Author: Imbolo Mbue
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 384 pages

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How Beautiful We Were: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780593132449 and ISBN-10: 0593132440), written by authors Imbolo Mbue, was published by Random House Trade Paperbacks in 2022. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent How Beautiful We Were: A Novel (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.37.

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A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers.
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews
“Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR
We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price.
Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.

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