TY - BOOK N2 - Listed as one of the 100 best books on Africa, Life and a Half was Sony Labou Tansi's response to the death of close friends during a bloody military and political crackdown in Congo. The novel takes place in an imaginary African country run by the latest in a series of cannibalistic dictators who has captured Martial, the leader of the opposition, and his family. AB - Listed as one of the 100 best books on Africa, Life and a Half was Sony Labou Tansi's response to the death of close friends during a bloody military and political crackdown in Congo. The novel takes place in an imaginary African country run by the latest in a series of cannibalistic dictators who has captured Martial, the leader of the opposition, and his family. T1 - Life and a half / DA - c2011. CY - Bloomington : AU - Sony Lab'Ou Tansi. AU - Dundy, Alison. AU - Thomas, Dominic Richard David. CN - PQ3989.2.S64 CN - PQ3989.2.S64 PB - Indiana University Press, PP - Bloomington : LA - eng LA - Translated from the French. PY - c2011. ID - 436872 KW - Dictatorship SN - 9780253355966 (alk. paper) SN - 0253355966 (alk. paper) SN - 9780253222879 (pbk. : alk. paper) SN - 0253222877 (pbk. : alk. paper) TI - Life and a half / ER -