Papá Moupelo lo bautizó con un apellido interminable, pero en el orfanato donde vive desde la infancia lo conocen por su sobrenombre: Ají Picante. Cada semana espera con alegría las clases de ese cura que es, para él,...
Michel, un chico de trece años con fama de soñador, vive en la localidad congoleña de Pointe-Noire. Su vida transcurre con normalidad: va al colegio, juega, tiene sus más y sus menos con los vecinos; su madre trabaja en un pues...
Una identidad que, en palabras del autor, resulta ser una simple y llana demolición del hombre de color que, en vez de ocuparse de su presente, se pierde en los meandros de un pasado cercado por la leyenda y el mito y, sobre todo, por la ...
These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. Mabanckou's poetry is frank and forthright, urging his compatriot...
The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles)
In The Tears of the Black Man , award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colon...
Pointe-Noire, Ende der Siebzigerjahre. Der Kongo hat längst seine Unabhängigkeit erlangt, und der zehnjährige Michel strebt danach, es seinem Heimatland gleichzutun. Aber während die Radionachrichten vom Sturz des persischen Schahs...
Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwinâs death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckouâs ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwinâs life in context within the...
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...
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...
Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis's infamous book, but while Ellis's narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho's protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has...