Add this copy of Xala to cart. $27.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Lawrence Hill & Company.
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Very good+ in very good jacket. Purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has toning and mild soil to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ toned and rubbed, edgewear that includes some small tears and chips, front flap price clipped and has vertical crease.
Add this copy of Xala to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Lawrence Hill & Co.
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Very Good in Good jacket. First American edition. Translated by Clive Wake. Octavo. 114pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Cloth boards moderately soiled, spine ends and corners bumped, else very good in a good only edgeworn dust jacket with spine sunned, spine ends and corners chipped. Senegalese novelist and film maker.
Add this copy of Xala to cart. $59.92, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Lawrence Hill.
Add this copy of Xala to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by L. Hill & Co..
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New York. 1976. Lawrence Hill & Company. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0882080679. Translated from the French by Clive Wake. 114 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Africa. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonializer in French-speaking Africa. XALA is the story of a El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye, a rich businessman struck by what he believes to be a curse of impotence (‘xala' in Wolof) on the night of his wedding to his beautiful, young third wife. El Hadji grows obsessed with removing the curse through visits to marabouts, but only after losing most of his money and reputation does he discover the source to be the beggar who lives outside his offices, whom he wronged in acquiring his fortune. inventory #28281.
