by Alain Mabanckou · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021125092
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«Petit Piment» is the novel by Alain Mabanckou, published by Seuil in paperback (273 pages, in French).
Petit Piment, an orphan from Pointe-Noire, grows up in a Catholic boarding school under an abusive headmaster. When the socialist revolution breaks out, he flees and scrapes by with petty thefts until he lands at the home of Maman Fiat 500 and her ten daughters. When that apparent happiness collapses, the protagonist ends up losing his mind.
Published in 2015, it belongs to the collection «Fiction & Cie»; the cover presents it as a «roman» and with the mention «Rentrée littéraire 2015».
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".
