Blue White Red
A Novel
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 undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa…
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Weitere Autoren: Dundy, Alison (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-00794-0
- EAN: 9780253007940
- Produktnummer: 20448542
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 596 KB
Über den Autor
Alain Mabanckou is the author of several prize-winning novels, including Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine). Blue White Red is winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire. He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.Alison Dundy lives in New York City and works as a librarian, archivist, and translator. She has also translated Sony Labou Tansi's Life and a Half (IUP, 2011).
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