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Tram 83 / Fiston Mwanza Mujila ; translated from the French by Roland Glasser ; foreword by Alain Mabanckou.

by Mwanza Mujila, Fiston, 1981-

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Deep Vellum Publishing, 2015.

Gold mines and mining -- Africa -- Fiction.

Nightclubs -- Fiction.

Outlaws -- Fiction.

Africa -- Fiction.

9781941920046 (trade pbk.)

1941920047 (trade pbk.)

211 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the French.

In an African city in secession, which could be Kinshasa or Lubumbashi, land tourists of all languages and nationalities. They have only one desire: to make a fortune by exploiting the mineral wealths of the country. They work during the day in mining concession and, as soon as night falls, they go out to get drunk, dance, eat and abandon themselves in Tram 83, the only night-club of the city, the den of all the outlaws: ex children-soldiers, prostitutes, blank students, unmarried mothers, sorcerers' apprentices... Lucien, a professional writer, fleeing the exactions and the censorship, finds refuge in the city thanks to Requiem, a youth friend. Requiem lives mainly on theft and on swindle while Lucien only thinks of writing and living honestly. Around them gravitate gangsters and young girls, retired or runaway men, profit-seeking tourists and federal agents of a non-existent State. Tram 83 plunges the reader into the atmosphere of a gold rush as cynical as, sometimes, comic and colorfully exotic. It's an observation of human relationships in a world that has become a global village.

Social commentary fiction.

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