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Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty
Häftad, 2013
142 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and …
Black Moses
Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017
Häftad, 2017
141 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has grown up, the revolution has only strengthened the reign of …
Lights of Pointe-Noire
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
133 kr
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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 …
African Psycho
Häftad, 2017
153 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Gregoire 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, …
Blue White Red
A Novel
Häftad, 2013
217 kr
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This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, …
As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth
and Other Poems
Inbunden, 2021
204 kr
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A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. Mabanckou's poetry is frank …
Tears of the Black Man
Häftad, 2018
175 kr
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In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without …
Tears of the Black Man
E-bok, 2018
104 kr
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In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without …
Tears of the Black Man
E-bok, 2018
116 kr
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In The Tears of the Black Man , award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without …
Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix
Häftad, 2019
249 kr
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Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye of Hortense Lloki show how civil war …
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips
Av Gary Shteyngart, Joyce Carol Oates m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
11 kr
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Lee Child's street corner. Gary Shteyngart's bed. Joyce Carol Oates's classroom. Roxane Gay's dream house. Billy Collins's New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton's kitchen. Valeria Luiselli's writing desk. Sloane Crosley's conference call. Alain Mabanckou's Department of Human Resources. …
Lights of Pointe-Noire
E-bok, 2015
119 kr
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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 …
Black Moses
Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017
E-bok, 2017
129 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZEIt''s 1970, and in the People''s Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has grown up, the revolution has only strengthened the reign of Dieudonné …
Death of Comrade President
E-bok, 2020
131 kr
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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 …
Death of Comrade President
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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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 …
Dealing with the Dead
Author of International Booker Prize-longlisted Black Moses
Häftad, 2025
190 kr
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'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Guardian'Sharp and entertaining' Times Literary Supplement'Exuberant ... Dealing with the Dead is often damning, frequently hilarious and always compassionate' Financial TimesAbruptly deceased at the age of twenty-four and trapped forever in flared purple …
As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth
and Other Poems
Häftad, 2025
233 kr
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A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. Mabanckou’s poetry is frank …
Black Bazaar
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist …
Broken Glass
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015The history of Credit Gone West, 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 …
Broken Glass
E-bok, 2010
131 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015The history of Credit Gone West, 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 …
African Psycho
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 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 …
Memoirs Of A Porcupine
E-bok, 2011
148 kr
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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 …
Black Bazaar
E-bok, 2012
143 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She''s taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist …
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty
E-bok, 2013
148 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and …
