Dealing with the Dead - Author of International Booker Prize-longlisted Black Moses

''Sharp and entertaining'' Times Literary Supplement ''One of Africa''s greatest living writers'' Guardian Abruptly deceased at the age of twenty-four and trapped forever in flared purple trousers, Liwa Ekimakingai encounters the other residents of Frere Lachaise cemetery, all of whom have their own complex stories of life and death. Unwilling to relinquish their tender bond, Liwa makes his way back home to see his devoted grandmother one last time, against all spectral advice. But disturbing rumours swirl together with Liwa''s jumbled memories of his last night on earth, leading him to pursue the riddle of his own untimely demise. A phantasmagorical tale of ambition, community and forces beyond human control, Dealing with the Dead is a scathing satire on corruption and political violence by one of the foremost chroniclers of modern Central Africa. ''Africa''s Samuel Beckett'' Economist

Product details

• Authors: Alain Mabanckou, Mabanckou Alain
• Assisted by: Stevenson Helen (Translation)
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2025
• EAN: 9781800817708
• ISBN: 978-1-80081-770-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 214 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary