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39 Berne Street
- Title
- 39 Berne Street / Max Lobe ; translated by Johanna McCalmont.
- Author
- Lobe, Max, 1986-
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McCalmont, Johanna
- Description
- 144 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- ""My mother says that there are things in life that she can't forgive . . ." At age 16, Dipita's mother, Mbila, arrived in Switzerland from Cameroon. Trafficked into Europe, she supported herself and her son as a prostitute in Geneva. Dipita, now a young, black, gay man serving a five-year sentence in a Swiss prison, shares their story and his own search for purpose. He intertwines their stories with the life of Uncle Démoney, a former civil servant in Cameroon, who staked everything on sending his sister to Switzerland. 39 Berne Street explores the complex themes of prostitution, immigration, and homosexuality through a fluid and expressive prose that makes it ring true. Originally published in French, it won the Prix du Roman des Romands in 2014. Max Lobe's 39 Berne Street vividly describes the unforgivable actions visited by family members upon family members in desperate bids for survival and contentment in the midst of Dipita's struggle toward forgiveness and acceptance"--
- Series Statement
- Global African voices
- Uniform Title
- 39, rue de Berne. English
- Global African voices.
- Alternative Title
- 39, rue de Berne.
- Subject
- Immigrants > Switzerland > Fiction
- Cameroonians > Switzerland > Social conditions > Fiction
- Black people > Switzerland > Social conditions > Fiction
- Prostitution > Switzerland > Fiction
- Families > Switzerland > Fiction
- Gay people, Black > Switzerland > Fiction
- Immigrants
- Prostitution
- Sex work
- Sexual practices
- Family members
- Black gay men
- Black LGBTQ+ people
- Cameroonians
- Social conditions
- Black people > Social conditions
- Black people
- Families
- Gay people, Black
- Switzerland
- Cameroon
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Gay fiction.
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-72
- ISBN
- 9780253064929
- 0253064929
- 9780253064936 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022042892
- OCLC
- 1301484940
- Author
- Lobe, Max, 1986- author.
- Title
- 39 Berne Street / Max Lobe ; translated by Johanna McCalmont.
- Publisher
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Global African voicesGlobal African voices.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- McCalmont, Johanna, translator.Translation of (expression) Lobe, Max, 1986- 39, rue de Berne.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lobe, Max. 39 berne street Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2023 9780253064936 (DLC) 2022042893
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-72