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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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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 voices
Global 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
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