The House at Sugar Beach

Descriere YEO:

The House at Sugar Beach - Disponibil la anticexlibris.ro

Pe YEO găsești The House at Sugar Beach de la , în categoria Literatură > Biografie & True story.

Indiferent de nevoile tale, The House at Sugar Beach din categoria Literatură > Biografie & True story îți poate aduce un echilibru perfect între calitate și preț, cu avantaje practice și moderne.

Preț: 39.99 Lei

Caracteristicile produsului The House at Sugar Beach

• Brand:
• Categoria: Literatură > Biografie & True story
• Magazin: anticexlibris.ro
• Ultima actualizare: 28-10-2025 01:22:05

Comandă The House at Sugar Beach Online, Simplu și Rapid

Prin intermediul platformei YEO, poți comanda The House at Sugar Beach de la anticexlibris.ro rapid și în siguranță. Bucură-te de o experiență de cumpărături online optimizată și descoperă cele mai bune oferte actualizate constant.

Descriere magazin:
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. When Helene was eight, the Coopers took in a foster child—a common custom among the Liberian elite. Eunice, a Bassa girl, suddenly became known as “Mrs. Cooper’s daughter.” For years the Cooper daughters—Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice—blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage. But Liberia was like an unwatched pot of water left boiling on the stove. A