by Alain Mabanckou · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757889176
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«Rumeurs d'Amérique» is Alain Mabanckou's autobiographical account of the United States, published by Points in paperback (240 pages, in French).
The author blends into the crowd and observes Americans, both those who share his color and those who do not. He travels through places he knows and others that resist him, until his true face appears. Between the unusual, the anecdote and the imaginary, he offers a very personal American autobiography.
The work belongs to the Points Récits collection. The original edition was published in 2020; this paperback edition, in 2021. The cover includes the mention Prix Meilleur récit.
Aimed at French-speaking readers who enjoy travel books and memoirs.
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".
