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      The Cattle Killing

      by John Edgar Wideman
      Published
      Oct 1996
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      212
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      In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Sep 1997 Mariner ISBN 0395877504
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      First Edition Oct 1996 Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0395785901
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