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The Lights of Pointe-Noire

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

By Alain Mabanckou

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About the book

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Alain 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 pr...Show more

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9781846689802

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2015

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The Lights of Pointe-Noire

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Paperback

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