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Black Bazaar
Alain Mabanckou
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Description for Black Bazaar
Paperback. Offers an account of a Black dandy trying to cut it in Paris. Translator(s): Ardizzone, Sarah. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing him of 'digging a hole in the Dole'. And his drinking buddies at Jips, the Afro-Cuban bar in Les Halles, pour scorn on Black Bazaar, the journal he keeps to log his sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner ... Read more
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing him of 'digging a hole in the Dole'. And his drinking buddies at Jips, the Afro-Cuban bar in Les Halles, pour scorn on Black Bazaar, the journal he keeps to log his sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
225g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846687778
SKU
V9781846687778
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About Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou is a writer of novels, plays and poetry. He teaches French literature at UCLA in California. Previous novels, African Psycho [9781846686412], Broken Glass [9781846688157] and Memoirs of a Porcupine [9781846687679] are also published by Serpent's Tail. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la Littérature in 2012 and in 2015 was listed as a finalist for the Man ... Read more
Reviews for Black Bazaar
Africa's Samuel Beckett ... Mabanckou's freewheeling prose marries classical French elegance with Paris slang and a Congolese beat
Economist
Hugely entertaining ... Mabanckou creates a vivid picture of this expat community and their at times love-hate relationship with the colonial mother country and the fraught contemporary politics of West Africa ... an enjoyable and insightful read from one ... Read more
Economist
Hugely entertaining ... Mabanckou creates a vivid picture of this expat community and their at times love-hate relationship with the colonial mother country and the fraught contemporary politics of West Africa ... an enjoyable and insightful read from one ... Read more