The radiance of the king
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The radiance of the king
(New York review books classics)
The New York Review Books, 2001
- : pbk.
- Other Title
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Le regard du roi
Regard du roi
- Uniform Title
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Regard du roi
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Copyright c1971 by The Macmillan Company. Introduction copyright c2001 by Toni Morrison"--T.p. verso
"Originally published in French as Le regard du roi by Librairie Plon in 1954. This translation originally published in Great Britain by William Collin's Foutana Books in 1965 and in the United States by The Macmillan Company in 1971. Reprinted by arrangement with Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., Librairie Plon, and James Kirkup"--T.p. verso
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Description
At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence's bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king.
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