Black Bazaar

Informationen zum Autor 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 Académie Française's Grand Prix de literature and the 2016 French Voices Award for The Lights of Pointe-Noire . Mabanckou is a Chevalier of the Légion 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. Klappentext From the winner of the Grand Prix de la Littérature 2012 Vorwort From the winner of the Grand Prix de la Litt�rature 2012 Zusammenfassung Offers an account of a Black dandy trying to cut it in Paris.

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Africa's Samuel Beckett ... Mabanckou's freewheeling prose marries classical French elegance with Paris slang and a Congolese beat Economist

Product details

• Authors: Alain Mabanckou
• Assisted by: Sarah Ardizzone (Translation)
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.07.2012
• EAN: 9781846687778
• ISBN: 978-1-84668-777-8
• No. of pages: 263
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature