{"product_id":"the-death-of-comrade-president-hardcover","title":"The Death of Comrade President - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlain Mabanckou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poignant and riotous tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from the winner of the French Voices grand prize and finalist for the Man Booker International Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's southwestern coast, is host to Alain Mabanckou's astonishing cycle of novels that is already being hailed as one of the grandest, funniest fictional projects of our time. His novels have been twice short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and have been described as beautiful (Salman Rushdie), brutally satiric (Uzodinma Iweala), containing fireworks on every page (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e), and vividly colloquial, mischievous and outrageous (Marina Warner) .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMabanckou's riotous new novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Death of Comrade President\u003c\/em\u003e, returns to the 1970s milieu of his awarding-winning novel \u003cem\u003eBlack Moses\u003c\/em\u003e, telling the story of Michel, a daydreamer whose life is completely overthrown when, in March 1977, just before the arrival of the rainy season, Congo's Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered. Thanks to his mother's kinship with the president, not even naive Michel can remain untouched. And if he is to protect his family, Michel must learn to lie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between the small-scale worries of everyday life and the grand tragedy of postcolonial politics, Mabanckou explores the nuances of the human soul through the naive perspective of a boy who learns the realities of life--and how much must change for everything to stay the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlain Mabanckou\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Congo in 1966. An award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAfrican Psycho\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBroken Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack Bazaar\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTomorrow I'll Be Twenty\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lights of Pointe-Noire\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlack Moses\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2015, Mabanckou was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769201361184,"sku":"9781620976067","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8e790e197e15fd9b0ed7cf2b585800b7.webp?v=1780343602","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-death-of-comrade-president-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}