The dark child.
By: With an introd. by Philippe Thoby-Marcellin. Translated by James Kirkup, Ernest Jones [and] Elaine Gottlieb.
Publisher: Noonday Press
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Camara, Laye.; Authors, Guinean -- 20th century -- Biography.; Guinea -- Social life and customs.
Description: [This book] is a ... memoir of [the author's] youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. [He] marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than the autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world.-Back cover.
Notes: Translation of: L'enfant noir.
Autobiographical story.