Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals

by Ahmadou Kourouma

Book Overview

Characterized as "the African Voltaire," Ahmadou Kourouma garnered enormous critical and popular praise upon the 1998 release of his third novel, En attendant le vote des b?tes sauvages. Kourouma received the Prix des Tropiques, among other prestigious prizes, for that book, and the French edition went on to sell 100,000 copies.

Carrol F. Coates's translation, Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals, introduces English-language audiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920221
• ISBN13: 9780813920221
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"