The cattle killing
by John Edgar Wideman
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In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young black itinerant preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets him into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black, white over black.
Spiraling outward from its core image of the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination - the cattle killing - the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, England, and South Africa of yesterday and today.
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Originally published: New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
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