The Cattle Killing

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/15/1997
ISBN: 9780395877500
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.80d
Award: Boston Book Review - Nominee

Review Citations: New York Times 01/04/1998 pg. 24