by Alain Mabanckou · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021304510
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«Les Cigognes sont immortelles» is a novel by Alain Mabanckou, published by Seuil in paperback (312 pages, in French).
In Pointe-Noire, schoolboy Michel, a dreamer, sees his routine shattered when the assassination of President Marien Ngouabi in March 1977 rocks the Congo. Mabanckou weaves family life and everyday conflicts with the history of colonialism and African decolonization, through Michel's adolescent gaze.
Work originally written in French, published on August 16, 2018 in the Fiction & Cie collection by Seuil.
For readers of historical fiction and African literature, especially those interested in the history of the Congo.
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".
