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Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE)
Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE) Alain Mabanckou 9781593764364 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others w...
The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir
The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir Alain Mabanckou 9781620971901 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of...
Broken Glass
Broken Glass Alain Mabanckou 9781593762735 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Alain Mabanckou’s riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appear...
Black Moses: A Novel
Black Moses: A Novel Alain Mabanckou 9781620972939 Fiction The New Press The New Press LONG-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A rollicking new novel described as “Oliver Twist in 1970s Afr...
Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices)
Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices) Alain Mabanckou 9780253007919 Fiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans...
Black Bazaar
Black Bazaar Alain Mabanckou 9781846687778 Fiction Serpent’s Tail Serpent’s Tail Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour...
African Psycho
African Psycho Alain Mabanckou 9789781933363 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho...