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Life and a half / Sony Labou Tansi ; translated [from the French] by Alison Dundy ; introduction by Dominic Thomas.
- 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.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ3989.2.S64 V5413 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dundy, Alison
- Description
- xii, 134 p.; 22 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
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Global African voices
- Alternative Title
- Vie et demie.
- Subject
- Dictatorship > Africa > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- Originally published: La vie et demie. Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 1979
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Sony Labou Tansi -- The Conscience of Africa and the Voice of the People / Dominic Thomas -- Warning / Sony Labou Tansi.
- ISBN
- 9780253355966 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253355966 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780253222879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0253222877 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010027837
- OCLC
- 646716188
- SCSB-12470394
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library