TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mbue,Imbolo
TI  - How beautiful we were
SN  - 9781838851378
U1  - 813.6 23/swe
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Canongate
KW  - Miljf̲r̲str̲ing
KW  - sao
KW  - Amerikaner i utlandet
KW  - Oljeindustri
KW  - Oljeutslp̃p
KW  - Miljk̲atastrofer
KW  - Protestrr̲elser
KW  - Oil spills
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Environmental disasters
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Romaner
KW  - saogf
N2  - Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and broken. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But it will come at a steep price - one which generation after generation will have to pay.  How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.[Bokinfo]
ER  -