基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：240 页
出版日期：2007年09月
ISBN：0143185519
条形码：9780143185512
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Modern Classics
外文书名：东方旅行者(小说)(企鹅现代经典系列)

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Mofolo's first novel is an allegory in which a young African in search of truth and virtue journeys to a land where white men help bring him to Christian salvation.
作者简介 Thomas Mofolo (1877-1948) was born in a remote village of the then Basutoland Protectorate. He was educated mainly at Morija, where he worked as a factotum and proof-reader in their Book Depot. To celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society there in 1907, the local Sesotho-language fortnightly paper, Leselinyana (‘The Little Light’), began serialising his Moeti oa Bochabela in seventeen episodes. Initially signed only as by ‘T M’, the text was published in book form later that year with the author revealed to be one ‘Thomase’, the well-known indigenous member of the community, who thus became the first African novelist.