Dark heart of the night
By: Léonora Miano ; translated by Tamsin Black ; foreword by Terese Svoboda
Contributors: Black, Tamsin
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780803228238; 9780803215672
Work titles: Intérieur de la nuit
Description: "What is Africa's own "heart of darkness"? It is what confronts Ayane when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an "outsider" with foreign ways distrusted by her fellow villagers, she must face alone the customs and superstitions that bind this clan of men and women. When invading militia organize a horrific ceremony that they claim will help reunite Africa, Ayane is forced to confront the monstrosity of the act that follows, as well as the responsibility that all the villagers must bear for silently accepting evil done in their name." "Through Ayane's unwilling witness, Leonora Miano probes the themes of submission and responsibility and questions the role of Africans in the suffering of their fellows. Also exploring African identity, Dark Heart of the Night is a profoundly disturbing novel in its evocation of the darkest side of people driven by their instinct to survive." --Book Jacket.
Notes: "French voices"--P. facing t.p.

"Bison books"--Spine.

"A small portion of this translation was previously published in The literary review (Spring 2007, vol. 50, no. 3)"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the French.