Comrade Papa

Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in the Cote d''Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes into a coast as yet untouched by colonisation. A century later and a young Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam begins to research his family history. When he is sent to Cote d''Ivoire to visit his grandmother, he will discover traces of an ancestor he never knew existed. GauZ'' looks across continents and centuries to create a portrait of two very different men, tracing the paths and histories that connect them and plunging us deep into the history of colonisation in the Cote d''Ivoire.

About the author

GauZ' is an Ivorian author, journalist and screenwriter. After studying biochemistry, he moved to Paris as an undocumented student, working as a security guard before returning to the Côte d'Ivoire. His first novel, Standing Heavy, came out in 2014 and won the Prix des libraires Gibert Joseph, and was followed by Comrade Papa, which won the 2019 Prix Éthiophile, and Black Manoo. GauZ' is the editor-in-chief of the satirical economic newspaper News & co, and has written screenplays and documentary films.Frank Wynne is an award-winning writer and translator. His previous translations include works by Virginie Despentes, Javier Cercas, Mathias Énard, Michel Houllebecq and Pierre Lemaitre. He chaired the jury of the 2022 Booker International. Most recently his translation of The Art of Losing won the 2022 Dublin Literary Award.

Product details

• Authors: Gauz, Gauz'
• Assisted by: Frank Wynne (Translation), Wynne Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.01.2024
• EAN: 9781529414455
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1445-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 194 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Europe / France, Narrative theme: Social issues, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence