Listed as one of the 100 best books on Africa, Life and a Half
was Sony Labou Tansi s response to the death of close friends
during a bloody military and political crackdown in Congo. The
novel takes place in an imaginary African country run by the latest
in a series of cannibalistic dictators who has captured Martial,
the leader of the opposition, and his family. Though shot, knifed,
butchered, and bled, Martial s spirit lives on to guide his
followers in their fight against the dictators. Facing censorship,
Tansi insisted that his book was a fable and that if he were ever
given the opportunity to write about real events, he would be much
more direct rather than follow the torturous paths of a novel. This
crisp translation by Alison Dundy maintains the fast-paced action
and bitingly satiric tone of the original."
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