Behold the dreamers

• Verfasst von: Mbue, Imbolo [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Behold the dreamers
• Titelzusatz: a novel
• Verf.angabe: Imbolo Mbue
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: 4th Estate
• Jahr: 2017
• Umfang: 382 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• ISBN: 978-0-00-815811-8
• ISBN: 978-0-00-815814-9
• ISBN: 0-00-815814-2
• Schlagwörter: (k)Lehman Brothers / (s)Bankrott
• Dokumenttyp: Fiktionale Darstellung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1625469896

Abstract

New York 2007. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. Working as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, he displays the punctuality, discretion, and loyalty that Edwards demands. Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons means a brighter future -- until Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers' façades. As the financial world threatens to collapse, the Jongas become desperate. And as their marriage threatens to fall apart, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.