Blue White Red : A Novel Paperback / softback
by Alain Mabanckou
Part of the Global African Voices series
Paperback / softback
Description
This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds.
When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps.
Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants.
After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported.
Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters.
Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2013
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- ISBN:9780253007919
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253007919
