The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) is a notable Ghanaian writer.

出版者:Heinemann

作者:Ayi Kwei Armah

页数:192

出版时间:1989-3-31

价格:GBP 10.20

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780435905408

图书标签:非洲文学外国文学加纳小说其他语言

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is a novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. It was published in 1968. It tells the story of a nameless man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana. He works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is furious and he can't help feeling guilty despite his innocence. The novel expresses the frustration many citizens of the newly-independent states in Africa felt after attaining political independence. Many African states like Ghana followed similar paths in which corruption and the greed of African elites became rampant. Corruption in turn filtered down to the rest of society and the 'rot' that characterized post-independent Ghana in the last years of Nkrumah is a dominant theme in the book. The novel provides a description of the existential angst of the book's hero who struggles to remain clean when everyone else around him has succumbed to 'rot'.