The Lights of Pointe-Noire
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at last he comes home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's south-eastern coast, he finds a country that in some ways has changed beyond recognition: the cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culture has become a Pentecostal temple, and his secondary school has been re-named in honour of a previously despised colonial ruler.But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture which still informs everyday…
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Weitere Autoren: Stevenson, Helen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78283-038-2
- EAN: 9781782830382
- Produktnummer: 17892106
- Verlag: Profile
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'147 KB
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