Memoirs Of A Porcupine
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Outlandish, surreal and compelling, a murderous porcupine tells all:'For years I was the double of Kibandi . . . He died the day before yesterday, so here is my confession'All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some are benign, others wicked. When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of eleven, his father takes him out into the night, and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar which has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation and, from this point on, he, and his double, a porcupine, become murderers, attacking neighb…
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Weitere Autoren: Stevenson, Helen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84765-652-0
- EAN: 9781847656520
- Produktnummer: 13945318
- Verlag: Profile
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'192 KB
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