The Death of Comrade President

Informationen zum Autor Alain Mabanckou Klappentext A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists. Zusammenfassung 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 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.

Summary

A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Mabanckou
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.06.2021
• EAN: 9781788162333
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-233-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction & related items, FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general and literary