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...
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 ...
Der zehnjährige Michel lebt in den Siebziger Jahren in Pointe-Noire, der Wirtschaftsmetropole des Kongos. Aus dessen Perspektive erlebt der Leser viel über das pulsierende Leben einer afrikanischen Familie in dieser Großstadt. Da gibt es Michels Stiefvater, der als Rezeptionist im Victory Palace arbeitet, Mama Pauline, die große Probleme hat, ihren Sohn richtig zu erziehen, Onkel René, einen wohlhabenden Kommunisten, sein Freund Lounès und seine Schwester Caroline. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Prix Georges-Brassens 2010.
Der zehnjährige Michel lebt in den Siebziger Jahren in Pointe-Noire, der Wirtschaftsmetropole des Kongos. Aus dessen Perspektive erlebt der Leser vie...
Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou's ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin's life in context within the greater African diaspora. Beginning with a chance encounter with a beggar wandering along a Santa Monica beach--a man whose ragged clothes and unsteady gait remind the author of a character out of one of James Baldwin's novels-- Mabanckou uses his own experiences as an African living in the US as a launching pad to take readers on a fascinating tour of James Baldwin's life. As Mabanckou reads...
Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou's ode to his literary hero and an eff...
Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the "shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live." Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while his nation falls apart. Unable to resist the dictator's will, his desperate citizens are left with nothing but humiliation. The evocation of...
Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and ...
