Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix (eBook)

Alain Mabanckou (Autor)

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2019
222 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04386-3 (ISBN)

Infos

1. This novel by Alain Mabanckou, set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, is satire about war in the Congo. Mabanckou is patently against the current civil war which has raged in the Congo for decades.

2. Mabanckou has won many awards for his writing, including most recently finalist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for Black Moses

3. This novel is a part of our Global African Voices series, and will find audiences in African studies, literature, and among readers of fiction more generally.

Translated into English for the first time, this novel provides a gritty slice of life in an active war zone.

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The award-winning author of Black Moses is at his satiric best in this novel the catalogs the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye of Hortense Lloki show how civil war culminates in a series of outlandish actions perpetrated by the warring parties' private militias-the Anacondas and the Romans from the North who have seized power against Vercingetorix (named after none other than the legendary Gallic warrior who fought against Caesar's army) and his Little Negro Grandsons in the South who are eager to regain control. Translated into English for the first time, this novel provides a gritty slice of life in an active war zone."e;Nearly twenty years removed from its French publication, Mabanckou's aptitude for characterization and his unflinching glimpse of plight echo within every movement of Vercingetorix . . . With The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix, Mabanckou stresses that even as violence is an accomplice to life, perseverance is synonymous."e; -World Literature Today

Autor

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Alain Mabanckou is a Franco-Congolese author and Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His novels include Blue White Red, African Psycho, Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Black Bazaar, Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty, and The Lights of Pointe-Noire. He is the recipient of numerous literary prizes such as the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique noire, Prix Renaudot, Prix Georges Brassens, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Henri Gal from the Académie Française for his life's work.

Bill Johnston's most recent translations include Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem Pan Tadeusz and Julia Fiedorczuk's Oxygen from the Polish, as well as Jeanne Benameur's The Child Who from the French. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the PEN Translation Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Found in Translation Prize. He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Global African Voices
• Übersetzer: Bill Johnston
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Africa • alain mabanckou • Civil War • Congo • Global African Voices • Indiana University Press • IUP • IU Press • mabanckou • Politics • private militias • rebels • Vietongo • Violence • war
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04386-7 / 0253043867
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04386-3 / 9780253043863