The Death of Comrade President
Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
España peninsular
- Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- ISBN13 9781788162333
- ISBN10 1788162331
- Tipo LIBRO
- Colección GARDNERS
- Año de Edición 2022
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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Literatura InglesaThe Death of Comrade President
Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
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 naive 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.