South who are eager to regain control. Award-winning author Alain Mabanckou is at his satiric best in this novel that...... more

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

translation by Dominic Thomas includes a foreword by Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou that contextualizes the novel’s importance...... more

Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou’s ode...... more

of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou’s searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the...... more

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

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

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

in and out of the same space. It s archetypal stuff, but Mabanckou transforms it into a work that intimately inhabits its...... more

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

Alain Mabanckou - Born in Congo; raised in France; lives in America - Translated from the French by Helen Stevenson Elif...... 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

Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, "from urban scenes to great forests and back, reflecting the way...... more

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

The parameters of Francophone sub-Saharan African literature expanded dramatically during recent yea... more