by Alain Mabanckou · ISBN 9782020973373
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Black Bazar is a novel by author Alain Mabanckou, published in 2009. The story takes place in Paris and follows the lives of a group of African writers trying to succeed in the French literary world. The novel explores themes of identity, immigration, and the search for authenticity in a complex cultural context.
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, including Broken Glass (2005) and the Prix Renaudot-winning Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006). He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language, and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as "the Samuel Beckett of Africa".
