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Street Life

Street Life

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

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African Books Collective
Año de edición:
2000
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9789966463623
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The second novel from the winner of the Sinclair Prize for Fiction with her first novel. The life and times of the desolate in Kenyan society, striving for survival in a callous world.

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