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Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 The history of Credit Gone West, a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been... -
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620975893Author Alain MabanckouFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The New PressPublisher The... -
Black Bazaar by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a... -
Dealing with the Dead Alain Mabanckou 9781800817708
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.22'Sharp and entertaining' Times Literary Supplement 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Guardian Abruptly deceased at the age of twenty-four and trapped forever in flared purple trousers,... -
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou 9781593763077
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593763077Author Alain MabanckouFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher... -
The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Set 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... -
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou 9781781257876
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.66Finalist 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... -
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou 9781933368504
Booksplease Price: $15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933368504Author Alain MabanckouFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher... -
The Tears of the Black Man by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43In 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... -
Letter to Jimmy by Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Memoir/Biography) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781593766016Author Alain... -
The Death of Comrade President Alain Mabanckou 9781788162333
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09In 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 Lights of Pointe-Noire Alain Mabanckou 9781846689802
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.36Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Alain 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... -
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou 9781846685842
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel 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... -
Blue White Red: A Novel by Alain Mabanckou 9780253007919
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23This 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... -
As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth: and Other Poems Alain Mabanckou 9781803095936
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.86A 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... -
As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth: and Other Poems Alain Mabanckou 9780857428776
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.34A 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... -
Black Moses: Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017 by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 It'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... -
America by Francois Busnel
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60France and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined both by occasional puzzlement and endless fascination. Francois Busnel, one of France's most prominent literary critics,... -
Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego by Christopher Hogarth 9781032067919
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African... -
Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel: Power Strategies and Place-Making Practices by Liora Bigon
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel. Its chapters... -
Embodiment: Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying by Ramona Fotiade 9781138546011
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing... -
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives Polo B. Moji (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 9780367637538
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces.The book adopts a transdisciplinary... -
The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe by Peter I. Barta
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the... -
Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film: A Study in Globalectics by Lokangaka Losambe 9781032195735
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and... -
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic by Vartan P. Messier 9780815637783
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is... -
Translation and World Literature Susan Bassnett (Warwick University, UK) 9781138641754
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01Translation and World Literature offers a variety of international perspectives on the complex role of translation in the dissemination of literatures around the world. Eleven chapters written by... -
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic by Vartan P. Messier 9780815637875
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.25Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is... -
Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets Stefan Helgesson 9781138547728
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $68.74This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what... -
Re-Imagining the Limits of the Human by Patrycja Austin 9783631780541
RRP: $59.28Booksplease Price: $53.64The essays collected in this book touch upon-from a variety of perspectives-the question of how the understanding of what is human has changed in the twenty-first century. The authors, exploring the... -
Entre-Textes: Dialogues litteraires et culturels by Oana Panaite
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Entre-Textes introduces advanced students of French to the richness of the Francophone world through literature from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.The course anthology is divided into fourteen... -
Remember to Dream!: 100 Artists, 100 Notes by Hans Ulrich Obrist 9781912122073
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.13Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of more than 386,000 followers (and counting!), in an endeavour... -
The Shameful State by Sony Labou Tansi
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Set 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... -
Francophone Afropean Literatures by Nicki Hitchcott
RRP: $41.86Booksplease Price: $39.60What does Afro-Europe signify? This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and... -
Francophone Afropean Literatures by Nicki Hitchcott 9781781380345
Booksplease Price: $154.45What does Afro-Europe signify? This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and... -
Exile and Return in African and Caribbean Literature Patoimbasba Nikiema 9781836245360
Booksplease Price: $142.00Exile is often perceived as an irreversible rupture, a state of loss and estrangement. Yet, in African and Caribbean literature, exile and return form a dynamic interplay that reshapes personal,... -
The Parley Tree: Poets from French-Speaking Africa and the Arab World Tahir Bekri 9781906570613
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Poetry is one of the major forms of expression in both Africa and the Arab World, and this anthology gives a glimpse of the most representative voices of the French-speaking countries of these two... -
Life and a Half: A Novel by Sony Labou Tansi
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Listed as one of the 100 best books on Africa, Life and a Half was Sony Labou Tansi's response to the death of close friends during a bloody military and political crackdown in Congo. The novel takes... -
The Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid by Nicolas Bancel 9780253026255
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $51.86Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005,... -
The Villain's Dance Fiston Mwanza Mujila 9781916751675
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureZaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of... -
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon JamesWhite skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASSFuro Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job...