by Alain Mabanckou · Points · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757899687
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«Le Commerce des Allongés» is the novel by Alain Mabanckou, published by Points in paperback (264 pages, in French).
Liwa Ekimakingaï, a young cook at the Victory Palace hotel in Pointe-Noire, grew up with his grandmother Mâ Lembé and seeks true love. When he meets Adeline at a club, his life crosses paths with the world of the dead. Realism and fantasy combine in a fable about ambition, destiny, and social classes in contemporary Congo.
The book was published on 18 August 2023 and is listed in the category of literary fiction and Francophone novels.
For readers of social fiction with fantastical elements interested in contemporary Congolese society.
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, including Broken Glass (2005) and the Prix Renaudot-winning Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006). He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language, and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as "the Samuel Beckett of Africa".
