“Making the voice of childhood heard in writing is a difficult art, Mabanckou excels at it so much that the hero remains a moving child in our eyes for a long time. "
Alice Ferney, The literary Figaro
“A delicious and delicate novel. "
The world
Papa Moupelo will no longer come to the Loango orphanage. No more frog jumps, lingala songs and pygmy dances. Moses, says Petit Piment, must now become a pioneer of the socialist revolution. But Songi-Songi and Tala-Tala, the Terror Brothers of Loango, lead him on their escape to Pointe-Noire. There, the magic and misery of the Wild Coast await him in concert.
Alain Mabanckou is a poet and novelist. In 2015, he was professor of artistic creation at the Collège de France. He is notably the author of Broken Glass , Porcupine Memories - Renaudot Prize - and Le monde est mon langue .