The Death of Comrade President
(Sprache: Englisch)
A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists
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A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists
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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 - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents' moods, their neighbours' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon swept away by the wind of history. In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naïve Michel can remain untouched. Starting as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, Alain Mabanckou quickly expands the scope of his story into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization and dead ends of the African continent. At a stroke Michel learns the realities of life - and how much must change for everything to stay the same.
Autoren-Porträt von Alain Mabanckou
Mabanckou, Alain Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in the Congo. He currently lives in LA, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He is the winner of the Grand Prix de la Littérature 2012, and has received the Subsaharan African Literature Prize and the Prix Renaudot. He was selected by the French journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for this coming century. His previous books include African Psycho (9781846686412), Broken Glass (9781846688157), Memoirs of a Porcupine (9781846687686) and Black Bazaar(9781846687778). In 2015 he was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alain Mabanckou
- 2020, 256 Seiten, Maße: 14,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1788162323
- ISBN-13: 9781788162326
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling. His voice is vividly colloquial, mischievous and often outrageous as he explores, from multiple angles, the country where he grew up, drawing on its political conflicts and compromises, disappointments and hopes. He acts the jester, but with serious intent and lacerating effect. Man Booker International Prize judges' citation
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