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First publish date: 1954
Authors: Camara, Laye.
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A poignant memoir tracing Camara Laye’s adolescence in the Guinean village of Koroussa, where family, tradition, and the lure of modernity clash.

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Camara Laye’s memoir follows his youth in Koroussa, French Guinea, where he witnesses his mother’s mystical healing, his father’s craft as a goldsmith, and his own coming of age amid enduring African traditions.

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