The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir

by Alain Mabanckou

Book Overview

A dazzling meditation on home-coming and belonging from one of "Africa's greatest writers" and the Man Booker International Prize finalist (The Guardian).

Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When he finally came back to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on the Congo's southwestern coast, he found a country that in some ways had changed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620971909
• ISBN13: 9781620971901
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.6"