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  • - and Other Poems
    by Alain Mabanckou
    £14.99

    A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.

  • by Alain Mabanckou
    £7.99

  • - A Novel
    by Alain Mabanckou
    £12.49

    This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol.

  • - Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017
    by Alain Mabanckou
    £8.99

  • by Alain Mabanckou
    £7.99

    Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. 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 with his own.

  • by Alain Mabanckou
    £9.49

    Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Lounes dream about the countries where they'll land.

  • by Alain Mabanckou
    £8.99

    Offers an account of a Black dandy trying to cut it in Paris.

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