Kidi Bebey

My Kingdom for a Guitar (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Lindo, Karen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

My Kingdom for a Guitar is a novel based on the remarkable life of Cameroonian-born writer and musician Francis Bebey. Born in Douala, Cameroon, Bebey studied in Paris and New York. He found fame when his first novel, Le Fils d'Agatha Moudio (Agatha Moudio's Son), was published in 1967, and that fame continued to grow with the release of his first album in 1969. He would go on to become one of the best-known singer-songwriters of Africa, whose groundbreaking style merged Cameroonian makossa with classical guitar, jazz, and pop.

Narrated by Bebey's daughter, Kidi, My Kingdom for a Guitar is a tribute to her late father and his family. Through a combination of recollections and fiction, it offers the reader a chance to witness the admiration of a daughter for her father and the love of a man for his music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253057860
• Artikelnr.: 62328988

Autorenporträt

Kidi Bebey is a French journalist and writer. She is the author of several children's books. My Kingdom for a Guitar is her first novel and was published originally in French in 2016.

Karen Lindo is a scholar of French and Francophone Studies, currently teaching and translating in Paris. She is translator of three other books in the Global African Voices series: The Heart of the Leopard Children, The Silence of the Spirits, and Concrete Flowers, all by Wilfried N'Sondé.