Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou
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 home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Lounes dream about the countries where they'll land.
Incomparable * Financial Times *
Mabanckou's irreverent wit and madcap energy have made him a big name in France -- Giles Foden, author of the Last King of Scotland
A novelist of exuberant originality.. refreshing logic pervades this delightful comic novel in which the boy narrator's ingenuousness is teamed with a sly authorial wit ... Its seductive charm and intelligence recentre the world so that all readers can indeed become Congolese -- Maya Jaggi * Guardian *
Perhaps his best yet ... Michel's voice is compelling ... he is, in fact, incomparable -- David Evans * Financial Times *
Clear-eyed warmth and charm ... will cleanse the palate and refresh the spirit -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Mabanckou's irreverent wit and madcap energy have made him a big name in France -- Giles Foden, author of the Last King of Scotland
A novelist of exuberant originality.. refreshing logic pervades this delightful comic novel in which the boy narrator's ingenuousness is teamed with a sly authorial wit ... Its seductive charm and intelligence recentre the world so that all readers can indeed become Congolese -- Maya Jaggi * Guardian *
Perhaps his best yet ... Michel's voice is compelling ... he is, in fact, incomparable -- David Evans * Financial Times *
Clear-eyed warmth and charm ... will cleanse the palate and refresh the spirit -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in the Congo. He currently lives in LA, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He is the winner of the Grand Prix de la Littérature 2012, and has received the Subsaharan African Literature Prize and the Prix Renaudot. He was selected by the French journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for this coming century. His previous books include African Psycho (9781846686412), Broken Glass (9781846688157), Memoirs of a Porcupine (9781846687686) and Black Bazaar (9781846687778). In 2015 he was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781846685842 |
| Title | Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty |
| Release date | 2013-05-09 |
| Studio | Serpent's Tail |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Alain Mabanckou |
| Translated by | Helen Stevenson |