African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, the far more accomplished serial killer Angoualima. The fact that Angoualima is dead doesn't prevent Gregoire from holding lengthy conversations with him. Little by little, Gregoire interweaves Angoualima's life with his own.
Taxi Driver for Africa's blank generation.. a deftly ironic Grand Guignol, a pulp fiction vision of Frantz Fanon's "wretched of the earth" that somehow manages to be both frightening and self-mocking at the same time * Time Out New York *
The French have already called [Mabanckou] a young writer to watch. After this debut, I certainly concur * Globe and Mail *
Energetic, terrifically powerful writing -- Harriett Gilbert, BBC Radio 4 A Good Read
The French have already called [Mabanckou] a young writer to watch. After this debut, I certainly concur * Globe and Mail *
Energetic, terrifically powerful writing -- Harriett Gilbert, BBC Radio 4 A Good Read
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in the Congo. He currently lives in California, where he teaches French literature at UCLA. One of Africa's major writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the prestigious Prix Renaudot for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for this century. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la Littérature in 2012 and in 2015 was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846686412 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846686415 |
| Title | African Psycho |
| Author | Alain Mabanckou |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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