9780253057853 : my-kingdom-for-a-guitar-bebey-lindo

Paperback / softback

230 Pages

$20.00 USD

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	October 5, 2021
ISBN-13	9780253057853
Language	English
Original language of a translated text	French
Pages	230
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.75 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$20.00 USD, £16.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

My Kingdom for a Guitar

Name: My Kingdom for a Guitar
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Author: Kidi Bebey
ISBN: 9780253057853

A Novel

By Kidi Bebey
Translated by Karen Lindo

Indiana University Press

My Kingdom for a Guitar is a novel based on the remarkable life of Cameroonian-born writer and musician Francis Bebey. Born in Douala, Cameroon, Bebey studied in Paris and New York. He found fame when his first novel, Le Fils d'Agatha Moudio (Agatha Moudio's Son), was published in 1967, and that fame continued to grow with the release of his first album in 1969. He would go on to become one of the best-known singer-songwriters of Africa, whose groundbreaking style merged Cameroonian makossa with classical guitar, jazz, and pop.

Narrated by Bebey's daughter, Kidi, My Kingdom for a Guitar is a tribute to her late father and his family. Through a combination of recollections and fiction, it offers the reader a chance to witness the admiration of a daughter for her father and the love of a man for his music.

About the Authors

Kidi Bebey is a French journalist and writer. She is the author of several children's books. My Kingdom for a Guitar is her first novel and was published originally in French in 2016.
Karen Lindo is a scholar of French and Francophone Studies, currently teaching and translating in Paris. She is translator of three other books in the Global African Voices series: The Heart of the Leopard Children, The Silence of the Spirits, and Concrete Flowers, all by Wilfried N'Sondé.

Reviews

"A wonderful translation of a gentle and yet poignant fictionalized (auto-)biography of the intensely creative Cameroonian musician, poet and critic Francis Bebey. This family saga, narrated by his daughter, Kidi seamlessly merges its descriptions of a uniquely cosmopolitan Paris in the 1960s and 1970s and an African country's struggles to move beyond the colonial experience."—Pim Higginson, University of New Mexico

"Without a shadow of a doubt, Kidi Bebey has inherited from her father, Francis, the famous Cameroonian musician who passed away in 2001, a visceral attachment to creativity, to the arts, to what makes us human."—Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, Le Monde, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"Kidi Bebey's deep love of words and stories mean that poetry and fiction find a warm welcome in her book."—Caroline Trouillet, Africultures, reviewing a previous edition or volume

Publisher	Indiana University Press
Series	Global African Voices
BISAC Subject Headings	FICTION / Literary (124 Titles)

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	October 5, 2021
ISBN-13	9780253057853
Language	English
Original language of a translated text	French
Pages	230
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.75 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$20.00 USD, £16.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference