Blue White Red: a Novel
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Main Author: Mabanckou, Alain (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2013
Series:Global African voices
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Item Description: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 deport
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Introduction; African Migration and African Dandys; Blue White Red; Opening; Part One: The Country; Part Two: Paris; Closing
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (pages)
ISBN:0253007941
1299106013
9780253007940
9781299106017

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