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10 de abr. de 2020 · The Death of Comrade President is a glorious, funny, surreal novel, set in communist Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s. It is also a profound study of tyranny and individual choice.
Comrade President: Directed by Mosco Kamwendo. With Kenneth Kaunda, Graça Machel, Samora Machel. A Mozambican village boy called Samora Moises Machel rises to become a daring guerrilla strategist who devotes his life to fighting colonialism in Southern African.
The Death of Comrade President, Mabanckou’s latest outing, provides a remedy, leaning less on convention and more on the realism that made pieces like Broken Glass so defining.
12 de mar. de 2020 · In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naïve Michel can remain untouched.
The Death of Comrade President: A Novel. Alain Mabanckou. New Press, 2020 - Fiction - 256 pages. A poignant and riotous tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from the winner...
The Death of Comrade President. A Novel. Alain Mabanckou. Translated from the French by Helen Stevenson. A poignant and riotous tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from the winner of the French Voices grand prize and finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
16 de ago. de 2018 · Winner of the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize, this poignant and riotous tale starts as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, but quickly expands into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization, and dead ends in the African continent.
