When the Plums Are Ripe

Alain Patrice Nganang

earliest edition we have, 2013 Philippe Rey, 2013 443 pages

In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the "time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world's own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all th...

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Editions we hold

When the Plums Are Ripe edition · 2020 · Picador · 368 pages · 9781250619617
When the Plums Are Ripe edition · 2019 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374719302
When the Plums Are Ripe edition · 2019 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 368 pages · 9780374288990
Zeit der Pflaumen hardcover · 2014 · Peter Hammer Verlag GmbH · 9783779505013
La saison des prunes edition · 2013 · Philippe Rey · 443 pages · 9782848762883

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