Blue White Red: a Novel

Name: Blue White Red: a Novel
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ISBN: 9781299106017

ISBN-10: 1299106013

ISBN-13: 9781299106017

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alain Mabanckou

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This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki s footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 168
Language: English