The Viceroy of Ouidah

Bruce Chatwin

ISBN 10: 0671412531 / ISBN 13: 9780671412531

Edité par Summit Books / Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980

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Text, Binding And Jacket In Excellent Condition. Price Clipped In Front Flap. Jacket Covered With Protective Mylar. Chatwin's Novel Portrays The Life Of A Fictional Slave Trader Named Francisco Manuel Da Silva, Who Is Loosely Based On The Life Of A Historical White Brazilian, Francisco Felix De Sousa. He Became Powerful In Wydah (Or Ouidah), The So-Called Slave Coast Of West Africa, Now Benin And Togo. (Note: Chatwin Was Caught Up In The Violence Of A Coup In Dahomey When He Was Researching The Book.).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Viceroy of Ouidah
• Éditeur: Summit Books / Simon and Schuster, New York
• Date de parution: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0671412531
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780671412531
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Book by Chatwin Bruce

Revue de presse

"Dazzles and mystifies, with its lush anger, its impacted memory, its gorgeous desolation."
--The New York Times

"A vivid, lush, seductive book that absolutely captures the look and light and life of the Brazilian wastelands and the hot, breathless African Slave Coast jungles. What an imagination Bruce Chatwin has!"--The Wall Street Journal

"Chatwin has a powerfully visual and aural style; sights and sounds crowd his sentences to the point that the book almost breathes."--The New Yorker

"Chatwin's book is both a luminous historical document and an exploitation of the surreal past. The author's talent for invoking history's black magic is evident."--Time