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Blue white red : a novel / Alain Mabanckou ; translated by Alison Dundy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-
- Series:
- Global African Voices
- Global African voices
- Standardized Title:
- Bleu, Blanc, Rouge. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africans--France--Fiction.
- Africans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. ; Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Introduction; African Migration and African Dandys; Blue White Red; Opening; Part One: The Country; Part Two: Paris; Closing
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253007940
- 0253007941
- 9781299106017
- 1299106013
- OCLC:
- 828247128
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