The Lights of Pointe-Noire - Mabanckou, Alain
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"Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989 at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later"--

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Produktbeschreibung
"Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989 at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later"--
Autorenporträt
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo. An award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. Among his acclaimed novels are African Psycho; Broken Glass; Black Bazaar; and Tomorrow I Will Be Twenty, a fictionalized retelling of Mabanckou's childhood in Congo. In 2015, Mabanckou was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. Helen Stevenson is the author of three novels and has worked as a translator for Faber & Faber and Serpent's Tail. Since taking up full-time writing, she regularly reviews for The Independent. She now lives in London.
Rezensionen
This is a beautiful book, the past hauntingly re-entered, the present truthfully faced, and the translation rises gorgeously to the challenge. Salman Rushdie