AMA: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
by HERBSTEIN, MANU
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Plastic/None
- ISBN 10
- 1770100032
- ISBN 13
- 9781770100039
- Seller
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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About This Item
Synopsis
Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name strange to her and her tribal culture. A life of struggle and resignation, bondage and freedom, passion and indifference, intense love and remorseless hate. Though forced into desperation, Ama never lets her soul be consumed by fear. While the stories of individual slaves have been blurred into one mass, Ama’s story personifies the experience of eighteenth-century Africans in an unforgettable way. Her entrancing story of defiance and spiritual fire starts from the day she is brutally seized, raped, and enslaved, and ends with her breathing the pure air of freedom. AMA is a deeply engrossing and colorful novel, packed with violence, sex, and action. The resiliency of her spirit will grip readers from the first page to the last of Manu Herbstein’s spellbinding novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BOOKLOVERS PARADISE (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14229
- Title
- AMA
- Author
- HERBSTEIN, MANU
- Format/Binding
- Soft card cover, illustrated, french fold
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Plastic
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1770100032
- ISBN 13
- 9781770100039
- Publisher
- Picador Africa
- Place of Publication
- Johannesburg
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 374 pp incl acknowledgements
- Size
- 233x153x30mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- novel; Africa;
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