Mr B’s Mattress

Mr B’s Mattress

Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Editorial:
African Books Collective
Año de edición:
2000
ISBN:
9781870716246

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The trickster Mr B gets into more comical scrapes. He has lost his mattress to Madam the Madam because of his failure to deliver the shipload of rice, and is forced to sleep on the bare strings of his mattress. In planning to get a new mattress, Dandy and Segi fall into his carefully-laid trap.

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