Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2004
Summary
A magical, blackly funny tapestry of a book, which, through the rise and fall of its central character - the dictator of a small imaginary former French African colony - tells the story of modern Africa.
Ahmadou Kourouma’s remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king’s fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099283829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099283824 |
| Author: | Ahmadou Kourouma, Frank Wynne |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
This is a tour de force - original, irreverent, brutal, funny, poetic - in which history and myth are brilliantly evoked
This is a tour de force - original, irreverent, brutal, funny, poetic - in which history and myth are brilliantly evoked – Margaret Busby * Independent *
A brilliant, often hilarious, political satire * Daily Telegraph *
A thoroughgoing indictment of the African way of leadership * Guardian *
Witty and wholly authentic chronicle of black African atrocity… Spellbinding * Spectator *
One of the most powerful, funniest and richest novels written in French this decade * Le Nouvel Observateur *
About The Author
Ahmadou Kourouma
Ahmadou Kourouma was born in the Ivory Coast in 1927. Hailed as one of the leading African writers in French, he died in 2003.
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