by Emmanuel Dongala, Xavier Pàmies · Pagès editors, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497792226
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«Johnny Gos Rabiós» is the novel by Emmanuel Dongala translated by Xavier Pàmies, published by Pagès editors in paperback (352 pages, in Catalan).
In the Congo, Johnny, a sixteen-year-old boy, becomes a child soldier: with glass in his shirt, he steals, rapes and kills. Laokolé, also sixteen, flees the city occupied by militias with her mutilated mother in a cart. The novel crosses their stories and shows how disinformation and the Hollywood imagination feed an absurd war.
Original title: Johnny chien méchant. This Catalan edition was published on November 15, 2004 in the Lo Marraco collection (no. 148).
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and African fiction interested in stories about wars, adolescence and survival.
Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He was born in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, in 1941. He was Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock until 2014.
