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Language French Publication date 1970 Originally published 1968 Genre Novel | 3.7/5 Babelio Publisher Éditions de Seuil ISBN 2-02-001137-9 Country Côte d’Ivoire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire Similar Ahmadou Kourouma books, Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire winners, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Les Soleils des indépendances (The Suns of Independence) is the first novel by Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma. It won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1969.
The title is a play on words involving the meaning of the Maninka word "télé", which can mean "sun", but also "day", "era" or "period [of time]".
References
Les Soleils des indépendances Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA