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(0)Alain Mabanckou
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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A poignant and riotous tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from the winner of the French Voices grand prize and finalist for the Man Booker International Prize
Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's southwestern coast, is host to Alain Mabanckou's astonishing cycle of novels that is already being hailed as one of the grandest, funniest fictional projects of our time. His novels have been twice short-listed for the
...3) Black Moses
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English
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"A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) by the finalist for the Man International Booker Prize It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him Moses. Then there's the orphanage where he lives, run by a malicious...
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English
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"[An] intellectually dense collection . . . Mabanckou's challenging perspective on African identity today is as enlightening as it is provocative." -- Publishers Weekly In The Tears of the Black Man , award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today....
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English
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This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work...
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English
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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 Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye of Hortense Lloki show how civil war culminates...
7) Congo
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Language
Français
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Entre l'arbre et l'homme, l'Alliance date de la nuit des temps. Le tronc d'un arbre, comme le front de l'homme mûr, porte des rides, les traces de son passage sur terre. Un homme ne meurt pas, il renaît dans un autre lieu. Un arbre mort attend, lui aussi, sa résurrection, mais par la main de l'homme. Passera-t-il par là ?
La poésie, lieu-dit Congo, coule là o se rencontrent les fleuves et les voix. Au royaume de l'enfance, la mémoire appelle...
9) Tram 83
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Exceptional debut Congolese novel uses jazz rhythm to evoke the frenzied exploitation of land and people in contemporary Africa.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the 'shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live.' Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while...
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