Behold the dreamers : a novel / Imbolo Mbue.
Record details
- ISBN: 0812998480
- ISBN: 9780812998481
- ISBN: 9780812998481 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0812998480 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780812989847 (international edition)
- ISBN: 0812989848 (international edition)
- ISBN: 9780525509714
- ISBN: 0525509712
- Physical Description: 382 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | 2007. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. Working as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, he displays the punctuality, discretion, and loyalty that Edwards demands. Neni's temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons means a brighter future--until Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers' façades. As the financial world threatens to collapse, the Jongas become desperate. And as their marriage threatens to fall apart, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. |
Awards Note: | Pen/Faulkner Award, 2017. |
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Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 47 of 48 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Mbu (Text) | 33620131466993 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ansonia Public Library | FIC MBUE, IMBOLO (Text) | 34045126322523 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | F Mbu (Text) | 33110144141593 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC MBU (Text) | 33120000381720 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC MBUE (Text) | 33750000065854 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F MBUE, I. (Text) | 32544072427254 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F MBUE (Text) | 34030136867261 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF MBU (Text) | 33260000249210 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/MBUE (Text) | 34029142869766 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/04/2024 |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC MBUE (Text) | 36937002147511 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Behold the Dreamers : A Novel
Imbolo Mbue was born in Limbe, Cameroon in 1982. She has been a resident in the U.S. for more than 10 years. She earned her B.S. from Rutgers University and an M.A. from Columbia University. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Behold the Dreamers in 2017 which was also chosen by Oprah Winfrey to be in her book club. (Bowker Author Biography)