The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking,
award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in
1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) "One of the most compelling
books you'll read in any language this year." --Rolling Stone
Winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award Longlisted for the Man
Booker International Prize Shortlisted for the Albertine Prize
Shortlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlisted for the
PEN Translation Prize Greeted with wildly enthusiastic reviews on
publication, Alain Mabanckou's riotous novel begins in an orphanage
in 1970s Congo-Brazzaville run by a malicious political stooge who
makes the life of our hero, Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo
abotami namboka ya Bakoko--his name means "Let us thank God, the
black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors," but most people
just call him Moses--very difficult. Moses is also terrorized by
his two fellow orphans--the twins Songi-Songi and Tala-Tala--but
after Moses exacts revenge on them by lacing their food with hot
pepper, the twins take Moses under their wing, escape the
orphanage, and move to the bustling port town of Pointe-Noire,
where they form a gang that survives on petty theft. What follows
is a "pointed" (Los Angeles Times), "vivid and funny" (New York
Times), larger-than-life tale that chronicles Moses's ultimately
tragic journey through the Pointe-Noire underworld and the
politically repressive reality of Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s
and '80s. "Ringing with beautiful poetry," (Wall Street Journal)
Black Moses is a vital new extension of Mabanckou's cycle of
Pointe-Noire novels that stand out as one of the grandest and
funniest fictional projects of our time.
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