The Death Of Comrade President

Author : Alain Mabanckou
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1782835407
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Comrade President written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents' moods, their neighbours' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon swept away by the wind of history. In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naïve Michel can remain untouched. Starting as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, Alain Mabanckou quickly expands the scope of his story into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization and dead ends of the African continent. At a stroke Michel learns the realities of life - and how much must change for everything to stay the same.

Author : Alain Mabanckou
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620976072
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Comrade President written by Alain Mabanckou and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant and riotous tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from the winner of the French Voices grand prize and finalist for the Man Booker International Prize Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's southwestern coast, is host to Alain Mabanckou's astonishing cycle of novels that is already being hailed as one of the grandest, funniest fictional projects of our time. His novels have been twice short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and have been described as "beautiful" (Salman Rushdie), "brutally satiric" (Uzodinma Iweala), containing "fireworks on every page" (Los Angeles Review of Books), and "vividly colloquial, mischievous and outrageous" (Marina Warner) . Mabanckou's riotous new novel, The Death of Comrade President, returns to the 1970s milieu of his awarding-winning novel Black Moses, telling the story of Michel, a daydreamer whose life is completely overthrown when, in March 1977, just before the arrival of the rainy season, Congo's Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered. Thanks to his mother's kinship with the president, not even naive Michel can remain untouched. And if he is to protect his family, Michel must learn to lie. Moving seamlessly between the small-scale worries of everyday life and the grand tragedy of postcolonial politics, Mabanckou explores the nuances of the human soul through the naive perspective of a boy who learns the realities of life—and how much must change for everything to stay the same.

Author : Alain Mabanckou
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 178283267X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Moses written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has grown up, the revolution has only strengthened the reign of Dieudonn Ngoulmoumako, the orphanage's corrupt director. So Moses escapes to Pointe-Noire, where he finds a home first with a larcenous band of Congolese Merry Men and then among the Zairian prostitutes of the Trois-Cents quarter. But the authorities won't leave Moses in peace, and intervene to chase both the Merry Men and the Trois-Cents girls out of town. All this injustice pushes poor Moses over the edge. Could he really be the Robin Hood of the Congo? Or is he just losing his marbles? Vivid, exuberant and heartwarming, Black Moses is a vital new extension of Alain Mabanckou's extraordinary, interlinked body of work dedicated to his native Congo, and confirms his status as one of our great storytellers.

Author : Alain Mabanckou
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1782830383
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lights of Pointe-Noire written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at last he comes home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's south-eastern coast, he finds a country that in some ways has changed beyond recognition: the cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culture has become a Pentecostal temple, and his secondary school has been re-named in honour of a previously despised colonial ruler. But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture which still informs everyday life in Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou though, now a decorated French-Congolese writer and esteemed professor at UCLA, finds he can only look on as an outsider at the place where he grew up. As he delves into his childhood, into the life of his departed mother and into the strange mix of belonging and absence that informs his return to Congo, Mabanckou slowly builds a stirring exploration of the way home never leaves us, however long ago we left home.

Author : ALAIN. MABANCKOU
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788162333
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Comrade President written by ALAIN. MABANCKOU and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alain Mabanckou
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1847654738
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Psycho written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the crime for some time, but still, the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, the far more accomplished serial killer Angoualima. The fact that Angoualima is dead doesn't prevent Gregoire from holding lengthy conversations with him. Little by little, Gregoire interweaves Angoualima's life and criminal exploits with his own. Continuing with the plan despite a string of botched attempts, Gregoire's final shot at offing Germaine leads to an abrupt unravelling. Lauded in France for its fresh and witty style, African Psycho's inventive use of language surprises and relieves the reader by sending up this disturbing subject.

Author : Cecil A Ward, Jr.
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781456061364
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comrade President written by Cecil A Ward, Jr. and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Raymond Manchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963 written by William Raymond Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Manchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
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Download or read book The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963 written by William Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shireen Ally
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351970690
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans written by Shireen Ally and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bantustans – or ‘homelands’ – were created by South Africa’s apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and ‘independent’ status by Pretoria, they aimed to deflect the demands for full political representation by black South Africans and were shunned by the anti-apartheid movement. In 1972, Steve Biko wrote that ‘politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians’. With the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections of 1994, the bantustans formally ceased to exist, but their legacies remain inscribed in South Africa’s contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic landscape. While the older literature on the bantustans has tended to focus on their repressive role and political illegitimacy, this edited volume offers new approaches to the histories and afterlives of the former bantustans in South Africa by a new generation of scholars. This book was originally published as various special issues of the South African Historical Journal.