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Author Asong, Linus T. (Linus Tongwo), 1947-2012.

Title Stranger in his homeland / Linus T. Asong
Published Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa ; [East Lansing, Mich.] : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, ©2010

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Contents Machine generated contents note: Part One -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Part Two -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Part Three -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Part Four -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- Part Five -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Chapter Twenty-Nine -- Chapter Thirty -- Chapter Thirty-One -- Chapter Thirty-Two -- Part Six -- Chapter Thirty-Three -- Chapter Thirty-Four -- Chapter Thirty-Five -- Chapter Thirty-Six -- Chapter Thirty-Seven -- Chapter Thirty-Eight -- Chapter Thirty-Nine -- Part Eight -- Chapter Forty -- Chapter Forty-One -- Chapter Forty-Two -- Chapter Forty-Three -- Chapter Forty-Four -- Chapter Forty-Five -- Chapter Forty-Six -- Part Nine -- Chapter Forty-Seven
Summary Stranger in His Homeland completes the long-awaited trilogy of Linus Asong's fictitious village of Nkokonoko Small Monje, separately treated in The Crown of Thorns and its sequel A Legend of the Dead. However, it leads us back not to events after A Legend of the Dead, but to the crisis that created the passionately exciting The Crown of Thorns. Honest, enthusiastic, arrogant and self-righteous, Antony Nkoaleck, the first graduate of his tribe means well. But his society, entrenched in corruption, sees things differently and therefore judges him according to its own norms. Just one or two errors on Antony's part are enough to cost him his job with the government, the coveted throne of Nkokonoko Small Monje, and finally his life. It is a sad story, strongly reminiscent of Myshkin's fate in Dostoevysky's novel The Idiot, a story in which the Russian novelist vividly shows the inability of any man to bear the burden of moral perfection in an imperfect world
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Subject Asong, Linus T. (Linus Tongwo), 1947-2012
Asong, Linus T. (Linus Tongwo), 1947-2012
Cameroonian literature (English) -- 21st century
African history.
FICTION -- General.
Cameroonian literature (English)
Genre/Form Fiction
Fiction.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
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