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Home | Magazine  | September 2016  |  Recommendations
Recommendations

Selected Works by Alain Mabanckou

by  WLT

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Three books by Alain Mabanckou

Verse 

Au jour le jour (1993)

L’usure des lendemains (1995)

La Légende de l’errance (1995)

Les arbres aussi versent des larmes (1997)

Quand le coq annoncera l’aube d’un autre jour (1999)

Tant que les arbres s’enracineront dans la terre (2004)

 

Novels 

Bleu Blanc Rouge (1998; Eng. Blue White Red, 2013)

L’enterrement de ma mère (2000)

Et Dieu seul sait comment je dors (2001)

Les petits-fils nègres de Vercingétorix (2002)

African psycho (2003; Eng. 2007)

Verre cassé (2005; Eng. Broken Glass, 2000)

Mémoires de porc-épic (2006; Eng. Memoirs of a Porcupine, 2011) 

Black Bazar (2009; Eng. Black Bazaar, 2012)

Demain j’aurai vingt ans (2010; Eng. Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, 2013)

Tais-toi et meurs (2012)

Lumières de Pointe-Noire (2013; Eng. The Lights of Pointe-Noire, 2015)

Petit Piment (2015)

 

Nonfiction

Lettre à Jimmy (2007; Eng. Letter to Jimmy, 2014)

L’Europe depuis l’Afrique (2009)

Écrivain et oiseau migrateur (2011)

Le sanglot de l’homme noir (2012)

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