Les Soleils des indépendances
1968 novel by Ahmadou Kourouma
2-02-001137-9 Les Soleils des indépendances (The Suns of Independence) is the first novel by Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma. It won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1969.
The title is a play on words involving the meaning of the Maninka word "télé", which can mean "sun", but also "day", "era" or "period [of time]".
Bibliography
- Les Soleils des indépendances, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1968
- The Suns of Independence, Translator Adrian Adams, Holmes & Meier, 1981, ISBN 978-0-8419-0747-8[1]
References
- ^ Book review by Danny Yee
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