Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten
years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother
sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace
Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests.
Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Lounes
dream about the countries where they'll land. While news comes over
the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, the death of
the Shah, the scandal of the Boukassa diamonds, Michel struggles
with the demands of his twelve year old girlfriend Caroline, who
threatens to leave him for a bully in the football team. But most
worrying for Michel, the witch doctor has told his mother that he
has hidden the key to her womb, and must return it before she can
have another child. Somehow he must find it. Tomorrow I'll Be
Twenty is a humorous and poignant account of an African childhood,
drawn from Alain Mabanckou's life.
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