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Black Moses
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at the …
The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix
Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they …
Memoirs Of A Porcupine
All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some are benign, others wicked. When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of eleven, his …
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works …
The Death of Comrade President
In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares - …
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Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix
The award-winning author of Black Moses is at his satiric best in this novel the catalogs the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.Set in the imaginary African …
African Psycho
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the crime for some time, but …
Der Puls Afrikas
Ist es ein Wörterbuch, eine Liebeserklärung oder doch ein Manifest? Die beiden Literaten Alain Mabanckou und Abdourahman Waberi haben eine ganz eigene Form gefunden, um die …
Memoirs Of A Porcupine
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Outlandish, surreal and compelling, a murderous porcupine tells all:'For years I was the double of Kibandi . . . He died the day …
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African Psycho
Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis s infamous book, but while Ellis s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and …