Ist es ein Wörterbuch, eine Liebeserklärung oder doch ein Manifest? Die beiden Literaten Alain Ma...

Kongo, Anfang der Siebzigerjahre. Der dreizehnjährige Moses, genannt 'Petit Piment' (nachdem er z...

Pointe-Noire, Ende der Siebzigerjahre. Der Kongo hat längst seine Unabhängigkeit erlangt, und der...

Michel, 10 ans, vit à Pointe-Noire, la capitale économique du Congo dans les années 1970. A trave...

Liwa Ekimakingaï, seines Zeichens Küchengehilfe im Hotel Victory Palace in Pointe-Noire, hat unte...

From one of Africa's most celebrated novelists: a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history for re...

'A a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history set in the Congolese town of Pointe-Noire'-- Provid...

A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.

Voici ce qu'on pourrait appeler un hommage à la Mère, une oraison funèbre d'un fils à 'une femme ...

Depuis quelques années, Alain Mabanckou a entrepris d'édifier une oeuvre poétique que jalonnent d...

On retrouve avec force, dans ce cinquième recueil, cet univers poétique cher à l'écrivain congola...

Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer ...

Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis's infamous book, but while Ellis's narrator was a blank slate...

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'Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989 at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a ...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has de...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the a...

Broken Glass is a Congolese riff on European classics from the most notable Francophone African w...

Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins wh...

Originally published in France as Les cigognes sont immortelles by âEditions du Seuil, Paris, in ...

Revised edition of Broken Glass published in 2010.

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be ...

Now in paperback, the vital extension of Mabanckou's cycle of Pointe-Noire novels that stand out ...

A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's grea...

All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some are benign, others wicked. ...

Alain Mabanckou is the author of several prize-winning novels, including M¿ires de porc-¿c (Memoi...

Translation of: Maemoires de porc-aepic.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of ...

A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.

1970lerde Kongo Halk Cumhuriyetinin ekonomik bassehri olan Pointe-Noire sehrinde on yaslarindaki ...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noi...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfr...