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Winner of the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize, this poignant and riotous tale starts as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, but quickly expands into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization, and dead ends in the African continent. Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congos southwestern coast, is host to Alain Mabanckous astonishing cycle of novels that are already being hailed as one of the grandest, funniest fictional projects of our time. His novels have been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and have been described as beautiful (Salman Rushdie), brutally satiric (Uzodinma Iweala), containing fireworks on every page ( Los Angeles Review of Books ), and vividly colloquial, mischievous and outrageous (Marina Warner). Mabanckous riotous new novel, The Death of Comrade President , returns to the 1970s milieu of his awarding-winning novel Black Moses , telling the story of Michel, a daydreamer whose life is completely overthrown when, in March 1977, just before the arrival of the rainy season, Congos Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered. Thanks to his mothers kinship with the president, not even naive Michel c

Author

Alain Mabanckou; Helen Stevenson, (Translator)

Publisher

Serpent's Tail Limited

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620976067

Subjects

Romance, Humanities