A man sits in a bar, ruminating on his own failures and conversing with an ensemble of memorable cha... more

enthusiastic reviews on publication, Alain Mabanckou’s riotous novel begins in an orphanage in 1970s Congo-Brazzaville run by a...... more

Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When he...... more

comes to life in Alain Mabanckou s outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine. When Kibandi, a...... more