03463cam a2200481 i 4500 1110143610 OCoLC 20220616142212.0 190719s2021 nyu e 000 1 eng 2019031375 9780593132425 hardcover 0593132424 hardcover 9780593132432 electronic book (OCoLC)1110143610 AJM pcc f------ Mbue, Imbolo, http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015021216 author 11443 How beautiful we were : a novel / Imbolo Mbue First edition New York : Random House, [2021] 364 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghosts of colonialism, comes up against one village's quest for justice--and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom"-- Provided by publisher Villages http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143356 Africa http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531 Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 11444 Oil spills http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094365 Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 11445 Environmental degradation http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006466 Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 11446 Corporations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85032928 Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 11447 Corporations. fast (OCoLC)fst00879777 11448 Environmental degradation. fast (OCoLC)fst00912877 11449 Oil spills. fast (OCoLC)fst01044773 11450 Villages. fast (OCoLC)fst01166969 Africa Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101346 8266 Africa. fast (OCoLC)fst01239509 2163 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 48 Novels. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2015026020 50 Fiction. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 48 Online version: Mbue, Imbolo, How beautiful we were New York : Random House, [2020] 9780593132432 (DLC) 2019031376 .b169984904 ddc BOOK 28320 28320 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2022-06-16 28.00 1 MBUE 63750 2022-06-25 2022-06-22 2022-06-16 BOOK 1