Emmanuel Dongala

Little Boys Come from the Stars (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Vinokur, Val; Rejouis, Joel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The peculiar and moving story of a Congolese boy's coming-of-age amid the political strife of postcolonial Congo

His nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble." He is an African child of the '90s--brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern-caught in the crossfire of a chaotically liberated African country. Matapari grows up in a world of talking drums, the Internet, and satellite TV, a world of dictators who remake themselves as democrats overnight.

His uncle is a stooge for the dictator; his father is a scholarly recluse obsessed with proving that blacks played key roles in Western history. Matapari is a young man in the middle--but the shrewdness and wit with which he tells his often riotously funny story set him apart from his relatives and countrymen.

Emmanuel Dongala uses the ingenious viewpoint of a child to show up the telltale world of adults--and to show how one preserves one's independence in a corrupt and violent society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374708054
• Artikelnr.: 39937087

Autorenporträt

Emmanuel Dongala; Translated from the French by Joel Rejouis (with Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov)