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Memoirs Of A Porcupine eBook
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SYNOPSIS
All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou’s outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalantMemoirs of a Porcupine.
When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation. From now on, he and his double, a porcupine, become accomplices in murder. They attack neighbors, fellow villagers, and people who simply cross their path, for reasons so slight that it is virtually impossible to establish connection between the killings. As he grows older, Kibandi relies on his double to act out his grizzly compulsions, until one day even the porcupine balks and turns instead to literary confession.
Winner of the Prix Renaudot, France’s equal to the National Book Award, Alain Mabanckou is considered one of the most talented writers today. He was selected by the French journalLire as one of fifty writers to watch this coming century. And as Peter Carey suggests, he “positions himself at the margins, tapping the tradition founded by Celine, Genet, and other subversive writers.” In this superb and striking story, Mabanckou brings new power to magical realism, and is sure to excite American audiences nationwide.
When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation. From now on, he and his double, a porcupine, become accomplices in murder. They attack neighbors, fellow villagers, and people who simply cross their path, for reasons so slight that it is virtually impossible to establish connection between the killings. As he grows older, Kibandi relies on his double to act out his grizzly compulsions, until one day even the porcupine balks and turns instead to literary confession.
Winner of the Prix Renaudot, France’s equal to the National Book Award, Alain Mabanckou is considered one of the most talented writers today. He was selected by the French journalLire as one of fifty writers to watch this coming century. And as Peter Carey suggests, he “positions himself at the margins, tapping the tradition founded by Celine, Genet, and other subversive writers.” In this superb and striking story, Mabanckou brings new power to magical realism, and is sure to excite American audiences nationwide.
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
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| ISBN: | 9781593764807 |
| Publisher: | Catapult |
| Release Date: | April of 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | eBook |
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| EAN: | 9781593764807 |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou (Pointe-Noire, República do Congo, 24 de fevereiro de 1966) é um escritor congolês, com dupla nacionalidade franco-congolês.
Estudou Direito em Brazzaville e, posteriormente, em França. Após concluir a pós-graduação na Universidade Paris-Dauphine, trabalhou durante vários anos em importantes multinacionais francesas antes de se consagrar por completo à literatura. Reside nos Estados Unidos, como professor convidado desde 2002; inicialmente como professor de literatura francófona e de "escrita criativa" na Universidade de Michigan e, mais recentemente, na Universidade de Califórnia (UCLA), com disciplinas de literatura francófona.
É autor de doze romances, seis livros de poesia, dois livros infantojuvenis e de diversos relatos que são publicados em distintos periódicos como Le Figaro (Paris), Le Soir (Bruxelas) e em duas obras coletivas: Relatos de África ("Nouvelles d’Afrique") em 2003 e Visto desde a Lua, relatos otimistas ("Vu de la lune, Nouvelles optimistes") em 2005.
Em 2006, com o romance Memórias de porco-espinho, conseguiu o importante prémio Renaudot. Em 2008, Mabanckou traduziu do inglês para o francês a obra de Uzodinma Iweala, um escritor nigeriano considerado como um jovem prodígio da literatura norte-americana.
Entre 2015 e 2016, o escritor lecionou no Collège de France na cadeira de Criação artística, com o curso intitulado de Letras negras: das trevas à luz (transformado em livro posteriormente).
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