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Little Boys Come from the Stars : a Novel by Dongala, Emmanuel Boundzéki, 1941-;Réjouis, Joël;Vinokur, Val is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Sardonic, subtle, and sweetly scathing, <b>Little Boys Come from the Stars</b> is satire at its best. Set in an unnamed country in equatorial Africa, it tells the story of Michel, a precocious teen dubbed Matapari (“trouble”) because of his extraordinary birth. Though his father is a reclusive scholar, his mother a pious though confused Catholic, and his uncle a shameless opportunist determined to gain power in the shifting politics of their post-colonial nation, Matapari remains an unsullied child who wears Reeboks, drinks Coke, reads Japanese comics, and watches <i>Rambo</i>. But when his family becomes the nucleus of the revolution for democracy, Matapari proves to be the ideal narrator for this story of violent upheaval and bloody corruption–a voice whose ironic innocence makes bearable and even humorous the awful realities of the world it describes.

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Author

Dongala, Emmanuel Boundzéki, 1941-;Réjouis, Joël;Vinokur, Val

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374184964

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14