- African Americans, African Americans in fiction, Fiction, German fiction
Returning frequently to Suwelo's visits to Mr. Hal and his stories about Fanny, this tale transcends time and examines such contradictions as black vs. white, man vs. woman, sexual freedom vs. sexual slavery, past vs. present, etc.
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Grave, contemplative, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alice Walker
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 417
- Publisher
- Plaza & Janés Editores, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Penguin
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Dutch, German, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780896219298
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