Black Moses - Alain Mabanckou

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 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 Dieudonne 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 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.

TITLE: Black Moses

AUTHOR: Alain Mabanckou

SKU: 9781781256732

PUBLISHER: Profile Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 23/03/2017

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 208

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 144 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm

WEIGHT: 376 gr