Life and a half / Sony Labou Tansi ; translated [from the French] by Alison Dundy ; introduction by Dominic Thomas.
Sony Lab'Ou Tansi.; Dundy, Alison.; Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
2011
PQ3989.2.S64 V5413 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Life and a half / Sony Labou Tansi ; translated [from the French] by Alison Dundy ; introduction by Dominic Thomas.
Author
Sony Lab'Ou Tansi.
Uniform Title
Vie et demie. English
ISBN
9780253355966 (alk. paper)
0253355966 (alk. paper)
9780253222879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253222877 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the French.
Description
xii, 134 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PQ3989.2.S64 V5413 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
843/.914
Summary
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.
Added Author
Dundy, Alison.
Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
Series
Global African voices.
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