Tomorrow I'll be Twenty
(Sprache: Englisch)
An irresistible and heart-warming child's-eye view novel set in Africa
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An irresistible and heart-warming child's-eye view novel set in Africa
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Michel 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 Lounès dream about the countries where they'll land.
While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, the death of the Shah, the scandal of the Boukassa diamonds, Michel struggles with the demands of his twelve year old girlfriend Caroline, who threatens to leave him for a bully in the football team.
But most worrying for Michel, the witch doctor has told his mother that he has hidden the key to her womb, and must return it before she can have another child. Somehow he must find it. Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty is a humorous and poignant account of an African childhood, drawn from Alain Mabanckou's life.
Autoren-Porträt von Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His six previous novels Black Moses, African Psycho, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty are all published by Serpent's Tail. Among his many honours are the Académie Française's Grand Prix de literature and the 2016 French Voices Award for The Lights of Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize and has featured on Vanity Fair's list of France's fifty most influential people. Helen Stevenson is the author of several novels and memoirs, and translates works from French into English. She lives in Somerset and teachers piano.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alain Mabanckou
- 2013, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Helen Stevenson
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1846685842
- ISBN-13: 9781846685842
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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