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Alain Mabanckou

Memoirs of a Porcupine

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All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou's outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine.When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation. From now on, he and his double, a porcupine, become accomplices in murder. They attack neighbors, fellow villagers, and people who simply cross their path, for reasons so slight that it is virtual… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-59376-480-7
  • EAN: 9781593764807
  • Produktnummer: 21812543
  • Verlag: Catapult
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 615 KB

Über den Autor


Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic. A French citizen born in Republic of the Congo, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature and creative writing at UCLA. His books include African Psycho, Letter to Jimmy, Black Bazaar, Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty, The Lights of Pointe-Noire, and Black Moses. Mabanckou has twice been a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, in 2015 and 2017.

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