Stuart Gelzer

Club Balafon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It's urban Africa: a world of French cars, Lebanese hardware stores, and American movies, not jungle and savannah-and of working-class Africans, not rich white men on safari.

It's an off-beat, violent, darkly comic window onto post-colonial Africa and the children of expatriates on a single day in a West African city in the 1970s.

Under its Elmore Leonard caper-gone-wrong thriller surface it's an examination, closer to V. S. Naipaul or Athol Fugard, of the changing and unchanging tragicomic rules of life for both Black men and White adolescents in newly independent but recently colonial Africa.

It's an abandoned nightclub at the top of an isolated hill overlooking the city: the Club Balafon.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bertie Stanhope Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798987808122
• Artikelnr.: 67852012

Autorenporträt

Stuart Gelzer, the child of American missionaries, grew up in Cameroon and India. Over the years he's been a screenwriter, a film editor, a drama teacher, a film and photography teacher, and a singer specializing in folk music from the Republic of Georgia. Nowadays he does fine-art photography, writes fiction and travel memoir, and translates old French popular novels. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.