{"product_id":"descent-into-night","title":"Descent into Night","description":"Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, Translation, 2018\nTranslated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.\nFrom Goncourt Prize finalist Edem Awumey, a beautiful and brilliant new novel.\nWith a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. While distributing leaflets with provocative quotations from Beckett, Ito Baraka is taken to a camp where torture, starvation, beatings, and rape are normal. Forced to inform on his friends, whose fates he now fears, and released a broken man, he is enabled to escape to Quebec. His one goal is to tell the story of the protest and pay homage to Koli Lem, a teacher, cellmate, and lover of books, who was blinded by being forced to look at the sun--and is surely a symbol of the nation.\nEdem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1988449162\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1988449162.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Awumey, Edem|Scott, Howard|Aronoff, Phyllis\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713262719037,"sku":"BVV.1988449162.A","price":74.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1988449162-0.jpg?v=1762982850","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/descent-into-night","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}