The Greats - Prudhomme, Sylvain
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Guinea-Bissau, 2012. Mixing fiction and fact, Sylvain Prudhomme revisits the famous '70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through the eyes of Couto, the laconic guitarist. After learning of the death of the singer, Dulce--once the love of his life&mdashCouto wanders through the capital city, from bar to bar, friend to friend. Thirty years file past in his memories: of the woman he loved, of guerillas fighting against Portuguese colonizers, and of the golden days of a legendary band that played all over the world with a sound that was new, fresh, and driven by the pride of an entire…mehr

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Guinea-Bissau, 2012. Mixing fiction and fact, Sylvain Prudhomme revisits the famous '70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through the eyes of Couto, the laconic guitarist. After learning of the death of the singer, Dulce--once the love of his life&mdashCouto wanders through the capital city, from bar to bar, friend to friend. Thirty years file past in his memories: of the woman he loved, of guerillas fighting against Portuguese colonizers, and of the golden days of a legendary band that played all over the world with a sound that was new, fresh, and driven by the pride of an entire country. Tension mounts page after page as the group prepares a final concert in Dulce's honour, even as a coup d'ï¿1/2tat is prepared by her husband, Guinea-Bissau's Army Chief of Staff.
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JESSICA MOORE is an author and translator. Her collection of poems, Everything, now, is partly a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation Award. Mend the Living, Moore's translation of the novel by French author Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 International Booker Prize and won the £30,000 Wellcome Prize in 2017. Jessica lives in Toronto. SYLVAIN PRUDHOMME is considered one of the most exciting contemporary novelists in France. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Prix de la Porte Doree for his novel Les grands, which also won the 2014 Prix Georges Brassens, and was celebrated as one of the year's best books in France.