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Ambiguous Adventure

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1961
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 180

A devout West African boy is torn between his village's rigorous Quranic school and the French colonial classroom his elders push him toward, and studying in Paris leaves him so lost between two worlds that going home ends in violence.

The cannon compels the body, the school bewitches the soul.
Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane

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