Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma

Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma

But when the 'First World' decides it no longer want to support dictatorships and call for democracy, he needs another ruse to maintain himself in power... Part magic, part history, part savage satire, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote is nothing less than a history of post-colonial Africa itself.

This is a tour de force - original, irreverent, brutal, funny, poetic - in which history and myth are brilliantly evoked -- Margaret Busby * Independent *
A brilliant, often hilarious, political satire * Daily Telegraph *
A thoroughgoing indictment of the African way of leadership * Guardian *
Witty and wholly authentic chronicle of black African atrocity.. Spellbinding * Spectator *
One of the most powerful, funniest and richest novels written in French this decade * Le Nouvel Observateur *

Frank Wynne is an Irish literary translator, writer and editor. He has translated more than a hundred French and Hispanic novels by authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas and Virginie Despentes. Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, his work has twice earned him the Dublin Literary Award, he has been awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize on three occasions and the Premio Valle Inclán twice. Most recently, his translation of The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild by Mathias Énard won the 2024 French-American Prize. He was the first translator to chair the jury for the International Booker Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780099283829
ISBN 10	0099283824
Title	Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote
Author	Ahmadou Kourouma
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2004-05-06
Number of pages	464
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