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Black Moses

By Alain Mabanckou
en

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 Dieudonné 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.


‘Black Moses’ is the picaresque and wildly entertaining story of a boy in the Congo who escapes a terrifying orphanage and ends up being raised by a group of thieves in Pointe-Noire in the 1970s and ’80s. A rollicking and charming novel that has been described as being like Olivier Twist in 1970s Congo-Brazzaville.

PUBLISHER :
new press
PUBLICATION DATE :
June 6, 2017
ISBN-10 :
162097293X
ISBN-13:
9781620972939
LANGUAGE :
English
FORMAT :
Hardback
PAGES :
208 Pages
TRANSLATOR :
Helen Stevenson
PUBLISHER :
new press
PUBLICATION DATE :
June 6, 2017
ISBN-10 :
162097293X
ISBN-13:
9781620972939
LANGUAGE :
English
FORMAT :
Hardback
PAGES :
208 Pages
TRANSLATOR :
Helen Stevenson
Our price:
$23.95
Available for in-store purchase

Black Moses

By Alain Mabanckou
en
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 Dieudonné 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.
'Black Moses' is the picaresque and wildly entertaining story of a boy in the Congo who escapes a terrifying orphanage and ends up being raised by a group of thieves in Pointe-Noire in the 1970s and ’80s. A rollicking and charming novel that has been described as being like Olivier Twist in 1970s Congo-Brazzaville.
PUBLISHER :
new press
PUBLICATION DATE :
June 6, 2017
ISBN-10 :
162097293X
ISBN-13:
9781620972939
LANGUAGE :
English
FORMAT :
Hardback
PAGES :
208 Pages
TRANSLATOR :
Helen Stevenson