Alain Mabanckou

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

Übersetzung: Stevenson, Helen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A moving meditation on home, home-coming and belonging from Francophone Africa's most important writer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books / Serpent's Tail
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 238g
• ISBN-13: 9781846689802
• ISBN-10: 1846689805
• Artikelnr.: 41596785

Autorenporträt

Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo. An award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives in LA, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His four novels African Psycho, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow I Will Be Twenty - a fictionalised retelling of Mabanckou's childhood in Congo - are all published by Serpent's Tail. The Lights of Pointe-Noire was selected for an English PEN Award, and in 2015 Mabanckou was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.

Rezensionen

This is a beautiful book, the past hauntingly re-entered, the present truthfully faced, and the translation rises gorgeously to the challenge. Salman Rushdie