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This is a coming of age narrative from Equatorial Guinea. The narrator is in Europe when the story begins, and has just decided not to become a priest, but to go to law school. He then goes back to his earliest memories and narrates his growing up, up to the time he leaves Africa for Europe to study for the priesthood. The story is generally well told. I think it just seemed a little too familiar to me. So many versions of this story have come out over the years, that this seemed a well worn pat
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