Wirriyamu

London: Heinemann, 1980. Second Edition. 148 pages; orange cover, 19 cm. Good condition, Ex Libris, normal browning on leaves, bright orange cover with almost no sunning on spine. Paperback. ISBN: 9780435901998, 0435901990

From the back cover: "Williams Sassine was born in 1944 at Kankan in Guinee, He studied at the Institut Polytechnique in Conakry and in Paris. He has taught mathematics in various parts of Africa. His other novels are Saint Monsieur Baly and Le Jeune Homme de Sable (Presence Africaine). Williams Sassine's moving and poetic novel is based on the actual massacre of the inhabitants of the Mozambique village of Wirriyamu by Portuguese soldiers in December 1972. Sassine evokes the personalities and the state of mind of a group of fictional characters, colonizers and colonized, trapped by the colonial situation and drawn inexorably towards the appalling horror of the massacre." Number 199 in the African Writers Series (founding editor Chinua Achebe), the book begins with an extensive list of other publications in the series.Cover photograph by George Hallett