Comrade Papa
Autor Gauz' Traducere de Frank Wynneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2024
Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in the Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes into a coast as yet untouched by colonisation.
A century later and a young Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam begins to research his family history. When he is sent to Cote d'Ivoire to visit his grandmother, he will discover traces of an ancestor he never knew existed.
GauZ' looks across continents and centuries to create a portrait of two very different men, tracing the paths and histories that connect them and plunging us deep into the history of colonisation in the Cote d'Ivoire.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1529414458
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: None
Dimensiuni: 128 x 194 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția MacLehose Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in the Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes into a coast as yet untouched by colonisation.
A century later and a young Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam begins to research his family history. When he is sent to Cote d'Ivoire to visit his grandmother, he will discover traces of an ancestor he never knew existed.
GauZ' looks across continents and centuries to create a portrait of two very different men, tracing the paths and histories that connect them and plunging us deep into the history of colonisation in the Cote d'Ivoire.
Recenzii
Funny, ebullient, often chaotic . . . GauZ' was shortlisted for the International Booker prize for his novel Standing Heavy. Comrade Papa is even better
GauZ' breaks down the language of colonisation ... with marvellous linguistic invention. This book that made me laugh and smile is a post-colonial homage to Romain Gary's bestselling The Life Before Us
History writ large is interwoven with family history voiced by a child narrator. This novel is a deftly built explosive device
The point of view transcends racial essentialisms to instead tell the story of people ... An expansive novel that is political without being self-righteous
A novel about the clash between cultures and languages ... GauZ's prose is intoxicating
Audacious and inventive
Notă biografică
GauZ' is an Ivorian author, journalist and screenwriter. After studying biochemistry, he moved to Paris as an undocumented student, working as a security guard before returning to the Côte d'Ivoire. His first novel, Standing Heavy, came out in 2014 and won the Prix des libraires Gibert Joseph, and was followed by Comrade Papa, which won the 2019 Prix Éthiophile, and Black Manoo. GauZ' is the editor-in-chief of the satirical economic newspaper News & co, and has written screenplays and documentary films.