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10. Apr. 2020 · The Death of Comrade President is a glorious, funny, surreal novel, set in communist Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s. It is also a profound study of tyranny and individual choice. Mabanckou, who...
The Armenian word for comrade is ընկեր ( unger) for boys and men and ընկերուհի ( ungerouhi) for girls and women. This word literally translates as 'friend'. It is used by members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Ramgavar and Social Democrat Hunchakian Party when addressing other members of the party.
of Comrade President Marien Ngouabi’s assassination, Michel’s family is thrown into turmoil as his family’s safety is com-promised. This is further compounded when his dog, Mboua Mabé, runs away in panic. Between interpreting his parents’ tension and investigating the village’s back alleys for his pet, Michel begins to under-
The Death of Comrade President, Mabanckou’s latest outing, provides a remedy, leaning less on convention and more on the realism that made pieces like Broken Glass so defining. Comrade President leans heavily into Mabanckou’s backgrounds, serving in part as a welcome expansion to his 2015 memoir, The Lights of Pointe-Noire (see WLT , Sept ...
7. Aug. 2014 · Born into poverty in apartheid South Africa, Jacob Zuma defies his destiny, by making the difficult journey to the highest office of his newly liberated cou...
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Mabanckou’s riotous new novel, The Death of Comrade President, returns to the 1970s milieu of his awarding-winning novel Black Moses, telling the story of Michel, a daydreamer whose life is completely overthrown when, in March 1977, just before the arrival of the rainy season, Congo’s Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered ...
29. Sept. 2020 · September 29, 2020. Alain Mabanckou’s new novel begins on a Saturday and ends the following Monday, a compressed timeline that suggests a story of limited scope. Told from the perspective of an adolescent boy who hopes to track down a missing family pet, this book brims with the kind of private longings and granular observations ...
