Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1788162331
ISBN-13
9781788162333
Edition
Main
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint
Serpent's Tail
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 3rd, 2021
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
210 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.70 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Ksh 1,600.00
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A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists.
In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel''s everyday cares - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents'' moods, their neighbours'' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon swept away by the wind of history. In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naïve Michel can remain untouched. Starting as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, Alain Mabanckou quickly expands the scope of his story into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization and dead ends of the African continent. At a stroke Michel learns the realities of life - and how much must change for everything to stay the same.
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