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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
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- 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
- 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 voicesGlobal African voices.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Dundy, Alison.Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-565