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Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-
Subjects
Orphans -- Fiction.
Young men, Black -- Fiction.
Congo (Brazzaville) -- Fiction.
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Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-
Orphans -- Fiction.
Young men, Black -- Fiction.
Congo (Brazzaville) -- Fiction.
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Black
Moses
/ Alain Mabanckou ; translated by Helen Stevenson.
by
Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-
The New Press, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION MAB
Subjects
Orphans -- Fiction.
Young men,
Black
-- Fiction.
Congo (Brazzaville) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781620972939 (hc.)
162097293X (hc.)
Uniform title:
Petit Piment. English.
Description:
199 p. ; 20 cm
Notes:
"Originally published in France as Petit Piment by Editions du Seuil, Paris, in 2015."--T.p. verso.
Translated from the French.
Summary:
"A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) by the finalist for the Man International Booker Prize It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the
black
Moses
is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him
Moses
. Then there's the orphanage where he lives, run by a malicious political stooge, Dieudonne Ngoulmoumako, and where he's terrorized by two fellow orphans-the twins Songi-Songi and Tala-Tala. But after
Moses
exacts revenge on the twins by lacing their food with hot pepper, the twins take
Moses
under their wing, escape the orphanage, and move to the bustling port town of Pointe-Noire, where they form a gang that survives on petty theft. What follows is a funny, moving, larger-than-life tale that chronicles
Moses
's ultimately tragic journey through the Pointe-Noire underworld and the politically repressive world of Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s and 80s. Mabanckou's vivid portrayal of
Moses
's mental collapse echoes the work of Hugo, Dickens, and Brian DePalma's Scarface, confirming Mabanckou's status as one of our great storytellers.
Black
Moses
is a vital new extension of his cycle of Pointe-Noire novels that stand out as one of the grandest, funniest, fictional projects of our time"--From publisher.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Black
fiction.
Literary fiction.
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Other authors:
Stevenson, Helen (Translator)
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