The lights of Pointe-Noire / Alain Mabanckou ; translated by Helen Stevenson.

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1846689805

Hardback The lights of Pointe-Noire / Alain Mabanckou ; translated by Helen Stevenson.

Author: Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-

Author: Stevenson, Helen,

Publication year: 2015

Media class: Hardback

Category: Non-fiction

Publisher: London : Serpent's Tail, 2015.

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 9781846689802 (pbk.) :

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Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of 22, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at last he returns home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's south-eastern coast, he finds a country that in some ways has changed beyond recognition: the cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culture has become a Pentecostal temple, and his secondary school has been re-named in honour of a previously despised colonial ruler. But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture which still informs everyday life in Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou though, now a decorated writer and esteemed professor at UCLA, finds he can only look on as an outsider at the place where he grew up. As Mabanckou delves into his childhood he slowly builds a stirring exploration of the way home never leaves us, however long ago we left home.

Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-

Literature.

Pointe-Noire (Kouilou, Congo) Social life and customs.