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: 978-1-84668-980-2
- EAN: 9781846689802
- Produktnummer: 17460556
- Verlag: Profile Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.3 cm x D2.2 cm 241 g
- Gewicht: 241
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Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo. An award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives in LA, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His four novels African Psycho, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow I Will Be Twenty - a fictionalised retelling of Mabanckou´s childhood in Congo - are all published by Serpent´s Tail. The Lights of Pointe-Noire was selected for an English PEN Award, and in 2015 Mabanckou was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
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