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African Psycho by Mabanckou Alain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou (c/o Presence Africaine)
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the c ...Show more
Black Moses by Helen (TRN) Alain; Stevenson Mabanckou
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has grown up, the revolution has only strengthened the reign of terror of Dieudonne Ngoulmoumako, the institution's corrup ...Show more
Blue White Red - A Novel by Alain Mabanckou; Alison Dundy (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Global African Voices Ser.
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 ...Show more
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The history of 'Credit Gone Away', a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been commissioned by its owner to set down an account of the characters who frequent it. Broken Glass himself is a disgraced alcoholic school teacher with a love of French lan ...Show more
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The history of Credit Gone West, a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been commissioned by its owner to set down an account of the characters who frequent it. Broken Glass himself is a disgraced alcoholic school teacher with a love of French langu ...Show more
Broken glass by Alain Mabanckou
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broken Glass has been elected to record their stories for posterity. But Broken Glass fai ...Show more
The Death of Comrade President by Alain Mabanckou
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists.
The Death of Comrade President by Alain Mabanckou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists.
The Lights of Pointe-Noire by Alain Mabanckou
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 returns home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's south-eastern coast, he finds a country that in some ways has ...Show more
Tomorrow I Will be Twenty Years Old by Alain Mabanckou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Grand Prix de la Litterature - Mabanckou's trademark humour and surrealism combine in an autobiographical novel. 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 h ...Show more
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