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001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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3028823 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20210930192252.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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001204s2001 vau b s000 1 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
00068661 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0813920221 (cloth : alk. paper) |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)ocm45506042 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(NNC)3028823 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
OrLoB-B |
041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
Language code of original |
fre |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PQ3989.2.K58 |
Item number |
E613 2001 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kourouma, Ahmadou. |
240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
Uniform title |
En attendant le vote des bĂȘtes sauvages. |
Language of a work |
English |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Waiting for the vote of the wild animals / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Ahmadou Kourouma ; translated and with an afterword by Carrol F. Coates. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Charlottesville : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
University Press of Virginia, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2001. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
viii, 277 p. ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm. |
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
Series statement |
CARAF books |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271). |
520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"Carrol F. Coates's translation, Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals, introduces English-language audiences to Kourouma's irreverent view of the machinations of the African dictators who played the West against the East during the thirty years of the cold war. Profiting from Western financial support, the dictators built palaces, shrines, and hunting preserves for their personal gratifiction as they paraded about with numerous mistreses, marabouts and advisors.". |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"In the style of a sere who sings the praises of the thirty-year career of the master hunter and president Koyaga (a fictionalized Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo), Kourouma treats his readers to a brief overview of the French colonization of the "Naked people," hunters in West African mountain country, followed by an account of Koyaga's assumption of power through treachery, assassination, and sorcery. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
In an interview Kourmouma noted the Togolese assumption that if the people did not turn out to vote for Eyadema in the democratic elections following the cold war, the wild animals would come out of the forest to vote for him. The novel ends with an apocalyptic stampede, although the animals are probably fleeing a bush conflagration rather than running to the polls."--BOOK JACKET. |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Coates, Carrol F., |
Dates associated with a name |
1930- |
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
Uniform title |
CARAF books. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Books |