The Lights of PointeNoire

A moving meditation on home, home-coming and belonging from Francophone Africa's most important writer Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at last he returns home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's south-eastern coast, he finds a country that in some ways has changed beyond recognition: the cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culture has become a Pentecostal temple, and his secondary school has been re-named in honour of a previously despised colonial ruler.But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture which still informs everyday life in Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou though, now a decorated French-Congolese writer and esteemed professor at UCLA, finds he can only look on as an outsider at the place where he grew up. As Mabanckou delves into his childhood, into t...

Author: Mabanckou Alain
Year of publication: 2015
Translator: Stevenson Helen
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 182
Reading time: 3 h. 2 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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