Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is
down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared
out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a
vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken
their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him
something wicked, accusing him of 'digging a hole in the Dole'. And
his drinking buddies at Jips, the Afro-Cuban bar in Les Halles,
pour scorn on Black Bazaar, the journal he keeps to log his
sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner shop has a
kind word; while at night his dreams are stalked by the cannibal
pygmies of Gabon. Then again, Buttologist wears no ordinary uppers.
He has style, bags of it (suitcases of crocodile and anaconda
Westons, to be precise). He's a dandy from the Bacongo district of
Brazzaville - AKA a sapeur or member of the Society of
Ambience-makers and People of Elegance. But is flaunting sartorial
chic against tough times enough for Buttologist to cut it in the
City of Light?
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