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by Alain Mabanckou · SEUIL · tapa blanda · 230 pages
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En 'Mémoires de porc-épic', Alain Mabanckou nos presenta la historia de un peculiar puercoespín, encargado por su alter ego humano, Kibandi, de llevar a cabo una serie de asesinatos utilizando sus afiladas púas. A través de esta parodia de una leyenda popular, Mabanckou explora temas de identidad, dualidad y la naturaleza humana, todo ello envuelto en un relato picaresco y lleno de ironía. El autor renueva las formas tradicionales del cuento africano, ofreciendo una narrativa ingeniosa y reflexiva sobre la condición humana y la cultura africana.

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".