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The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback, Main)
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The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R276
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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 comes
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 he delves into his childhood, into the life of his departed
mother and into the strange mix of belonging and absence that
informs his return to Congo, Mabanckou slowly builds a stirring
exploration of the way home never leaves us, however long ago we
left home.
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