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Black Moses: Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017 [Hardcover] [Mar 23, 2017] Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou

Hachette

African Psycho

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Serpent's Tail

Memoirs Of A Porcupine

Profile Books, Ltd.

The history of 'Credit Gone Away', a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been commissioned by its owner to set down an account of the characters who frequent it. Broken Glass himself is a disgraced alcoholic school teacher with a love of French language and literature which he has largely failed to communicate to his pupils but which he displays in the pages of his notebook. The notebook is also a farewell to the bar and to his fellow drinkers. After writing the final words Broken Glass will go down to the River Tchinouka and throw himself into its murky waters, where his lamented mother also drowned.

Broken Glass

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Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He’s planned the crime for some time, but still, the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, the far more accomplished serial killer Angoualima. The fact that Angoualima is dead doesn’t prevent Gregoire from holding lengthy conversations with him. Little by little, Gregoire interweaves Angoualima’s life and criminal exploits with his own. Continuing with the plan despite a string of botched attempts, Gregoire’s final shot at offing Germaine leads to an abrupt unraveling. Lauded in France for its fresh and witty style, African Psycho’s inventive use of language surprises and relieves the reader by injecting humor into this disturbing subject.

United States

Soft Skull

Action & Adventure

POINTS

Petit Piment (Fiction & Cie) (French Edition)

Le Seuil

Notre France Noire

Pascal Blanchard

Abdourahman Waberi

FAYARD

L'Europe depuis l'Afrique

Christophe Merlin

NAIVE

Tais-Toi et Meurs

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

La Branche

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