by Joyce Cary · New Directions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780811210300
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«Mister Johnson» is the novel by Joyce Cary, published by New Directions in paperback (227 pages, in English).
In colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson, a Nigerian clerk, collaborates with district officer Harry Rudbeck to fund a main trade route. The novel explores identity, loyalty and cultural clash through a register combining humour and tragedy.
The work originally appeared in 1939; this New Directions edition was published in 1989.
For readers of twentieth-century classic fiction and literature on colonialism, with a command of English.
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. His most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse's Mouth.
