Mount Pleasant

Alain Patrice Nganang

Original title: Mont Plaisant

earliest edition we have, 2011 Philippe Rey, 2011 506 pages

In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists. Just nine years old and on the verge of becoming one of the sultan's hundreds of wives, Sara's story takes an unexpected turn when she is recognized by Bertha, the slave in charge of training Njoya's brides, as Nebu, the son she lost tragically years bef...

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Editions we hold

Mount Pleasant paperback · 2017 · Picador USA · 384 pages · 9781250118417
Mount Pleasant edition · 2016 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 368 pages · 9780374213855
Mount Pleasant edition · 2016 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374713089
Mont Plaisant edition · 2011 · Philippe Rey · 506 pages · 9782848761770

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