FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2015
Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s.
His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the
Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white
guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend
Lounès dream about the countries where they'll land.
While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in
Tehran, the death of the Shah, the scandal of the Boukassa diamonds,
Michel struggles with the demands of his twelve year old girlfriend
Caroline, who threatens to leave him for a bully in the football team.
But most worrying for Michel, the witch doctor has told his mother
that he has hidden the key to her womb, and must return it before she
can have another child. Somehow he must find it. _Tomorrow_ _I'll Be
Twenty_ is a humorous and poignant account of an African childhood,
drawn from Alain Mabanckou's life.
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ISBN
9781847657893
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
Serpent's tail
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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