Bibliograph

Petit piment, roman, Alain Mabanckou

Type

Label

Petit piment, roman, Alain Mabanckou

Language

fre

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Petit piment

Oclc number

984028613

Responsibility statement

Alain Mabanckou

Series statement

Points, 4465

Sub title

roman

Summary

Moses, as he is called by most people, is really named Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. He lives in an orphanage run by a malicious political stooge, Dieudonne Ngoulmoumako, where he is terrorized by two fellow orphans--the twins Songi-Songi and Tala-Tala. Moses seeks revenge on the twins and escapes the orphange with them. They later form a gang that survives on petty theft in the port town Point Noire. Moses then suffers a tragic journey through the underworld of Point Noire and politically repressive wold of Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s and 1980s

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