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Life and a half

Title
Life and a half / Sony Labou Tansi ; translated [from the French] by Alison Dundy ; introduction by Dominic Thomas.
Author
Sony Lab'Ou Tansi.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Supplementary Content
  • Table of contents
  • V:DE-603;B:DE-30

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Additional Authors
  • Dundy, Alison.
  • Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
Description
xii, 134 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Listed as one of the 100 best books on Africa, Life and a Half was Sony Labou Tansi's response to the death of close friends during a bloody military and political crackdown in Congo. The novel takes place in an imaginary African country run by the latest in a series of cannibalistic dictators who has captured Martial, the leader of the opposition, and his family.
Series Statement
Global African voices
Uniform Title
  • Vie et demie. English
  • Global African voices.
Alternative Title
Vie et demie.
Subject
Dictatorship > Africa > Fiction
Language (note)
  • Translated from the French.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Sony Labou Tansi -- The Conscience of Africa and the Voice of the People / Dominic Thomas -- Warning / Sony Labou Tansi.
Call Number
JFD 13-565
ISBN
  • 9780253355966 (alk. paper)
  • 0253355966 (alk. paper)
  • 9780253222879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0253222877 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010027837
OCLC
646716188
Author
Sony Lab'Ou Tansi.
Title
Life and a half / Sony Labou Tansi ; translated [from the French] by Alison Dundy ; introduction by Dominic Thomas.
Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Series
Global African voices
Global African voices.
Language
Translated from the French.
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Table of contents
http://scans.hebis.de/HEBCGI/show.pl?23321613_toc.pdf
Added Author
Dundy, Alison.
Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
Research Call Number
JFD 13-565
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