How Beautiful We Were: A Novel. Audible Audiobook. – Unabridged. Imbolo Mbue (Author), Prentice Onayemi (Narrator), Janina Edwards (Narrator), Dion Graham (Narrator), JD Jackson (Narrator), Allyson Johnson (Narrator), Lisa Renee Pitts (Narrator), Random /5(). · We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue is a moving story about a fictional African Village told from multiple perspectives. An American oil company causes devastating problems for the people and land. The villagers are dealing with a government that doesn’t care about its people and only cares about its own interest. The story revolves around Thula/5.
How Beautiful We Were. by Imbolo Mbue. Chapter 1. We should have known the end was near. How could we not have known? When the sky began to pour acid and rivers began to turn green, we should have known our land would soon be dead. Then again, how could we have known when they didn't want us to know? how beautiful we were by Imbolo Mbue ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 9, The author of the award-winning debut Behold the Dreamers () follows up with a decades-spanning account of environmental calamity and its reverberating, often violent impact on a fictional African village. The element of dreams is another important common thread in both novels. "It's not crazy dreams," said Mbue. "They just want to live a normal life with normal dreams, like a safe place to live. Enough to eat." Astonishingly, Mbue has had How Beautiful We Were in the hopper for 17 years. "It was the first thing I started, when I.
ARUN VENUGOPAL, BYLINE: "How Beautiful We Were" is Imbolo Mbue's latest novel. And it's set in a fictional African village in the s. The book is a David-and-Goliath tale, pitting the villagers. HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE. By Imbolo Mbue. A kind of moral claustrophobia hangs over the opening pages of Imbolo Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating second novel, “How Beautiful We Were. How Beautiful We Were: A Novel. Audible Audiobook. – Unabridged. Imbolo Mbue (Author), Prentice Onayemi (Narrator), Janina Edwards (Narrator), Dion Graham (Narrator), JD Jackson (Narrator), Allyson Johnson (Narrator), Lisa Renee Pitts (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) 5 more. out of 5 stars.
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