LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 It's 1970,
and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution
is ushering in a new age. But over at the orphanage on the
outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has grown up, the
revolution has only strengthened the reign of terror of Dieudonne
Ngoulmoumako, the institution's corrupt director. So Moses escapes
to Pointe-Noire, where he finds a home with a larcenous band of
Congolese Merry Men and among the Zairian prostitutes of the
Trois-Cents quarter. But the authorities won't leave Moses in
peace, and intervene to chase both the Merry Men and the
Trois-Cents girls out of town. All this injustice pushes poor Moses
over the edge. Could he really be the Robin Hood of the Congo? Or
is he just losing his marbles? Black Moses is a larger-than-life
comic tale of a young man obsessed with helping the helpless in an
unjust world. It is also a vital new extension of Mabanckou's
extraordinary, interlinked body of work dedicated to his native
Congo, and confirms his status as one of our great storytellers.
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