Description
A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists
About the Author
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His six previous novels Black Moses, African Psycho, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty are all published by Serpent's Tail. Among his many honours are the Academie Francaise's Grand Prix de literature and the 2016 French Voices Award for The Lights of Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou is a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur, was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize and has featured on Vanity Fair's list of France's fifty most influential people.
Reviews
Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling... He acts the jester, but with serious intent and lacerating effect. -- Man Booker International Prize judges' citation
We should all be reading Alain Mabanckou right now ... The Death of Comrade President is a glorious, funny, surreal novel. -- Alex Preston * Financial Times *
Awards
Short-listed for The Scott Moncrieff Prize 2022 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9781788162333
Author Alain Mabanckou
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Serpent's Tail
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 220g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 22mm