The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
A polyphonic tale of immigration and community by the winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025
“The most promising Senegalese writer of his generation” * Le Monde *
“A raucously polyphonic novel.” * The New Yorker *
“A raucously polyphonic novel.” * The New Yorker *
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Senegal in 1990. Brotherhood (Terre ceinte), received the Ahmadou Kourouma literary prize as well as the Grand Prix du Roman Métis. His second novel, Silence du choeur, was awarded the Prix Litterature-Monde 2018. An extract from his third novel, De purs hommes, was published in Granta Magazine in 2019. In 2021, he won the Prix Goncourt for The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first author from sub-Saharan Africa to win the award and one of the youngest at only thirty-one years old. He currently lives in Paris. Alison Anderson’s translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of the Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787705067 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787705064 |
| Title | The Silence of the Choir |
| Author | Mohamed Mbougar Sarr |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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