{"product_id":"book-eq6k","title":"Descent into Night","description":" \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Translation, 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Goncourt Prize finalist Edem Awumey, a beautiful and brilliant new novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. While distributing leaflets with provocative quotations from Beckett, Ito Baraka is taken to a camp where torture, starvation, beatings, and rape are normal. Forced to inform on his friends, whose fates he now fears, and released a broken man, he is enabled to escape to Quebec. His one goal is to tell the story of the protest and pay homage to Koli Lem, a teacher, cellmate, and lover of books, who was blinded by being forced to look at the sun–and is surely a symbol of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49366739550512,"sku":"BDeq6k","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/138821-eq6k-Square.jpg?v=1734578625","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-eq6k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}