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Originally published as Ville Cruelle. © 1971 Présence Africaine English translation © 2013 by Indiana University Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Beti, Mongo, 1932–2001.

[Ville cruelle. English]

Cruel city : a novel / Mongo Beti ; translated by Pim Higginson.

p. cm.

Previous French edition: Nouvelle edition. Paris : “Présence africaine,” 1971.

ISBN 978-0-253-00823-7 (pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-00830-5 (eb)

1. Cities and towns—Fiction. 2. Cameroon—Fiction. I. Higginson, Pim. II. Title.

PQ3989.2.B45V513 2013

843’.914—dc23

2012038561

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