Blue White Red: A Novel [Paperback]

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported.Blue White Redis a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country ofDigol.

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A journey into postcolonial Africa by a prize-winning writer

Alain Mabanckou is the author of several prize-winning novels, includingM?moires de porc-?pic (Memoirs of a Porcupine).Blue White Redis winner of the Grand Prix Litt?raire de l'Afrique Noire. He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Alison Dundy lives in New York City and works as a librarian, archivist, and translator. She has also translated Sony Labou Tansi'sLife and a Half(IUP, 2011).

Alain Mabanckou counts as one of the most successful voices of young African literature in the French language.

Alain Mabanckou can be defined as the 'clear guide' of a new generation of Congolese writers.

Blue White Red stands at the beginning of the author's remarkable and multil#¾