The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez
$42.30
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2024
Summary
Sony Labou Tansi’s surreal portrait of a despised and incompetent regime is a biting, burlesque fable, incisive in its description of postcolonial life.
History has been silenced in this modern African state: only the voices of the dead cry out for justice. It is a cry answered by Estina Bronzario, the Woman of Bronze, determined to act against the political and moral corruption of male-dominated society.
Murders escalate, crowds ebb and flow, and the years ro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035900473 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035900475 |
| Author: | Clive Wake, Sony Labou Tansi |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Apollo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Central Africa’s greatest writer * New York Times *No greater genius than Sony Labou Tansi * Independent *Sublimely surreal allegory… Tansi [is] one of Africa’s important voices * Publishers Weekly *
About The Author
Clive Wake
Sony Lab’ou Tansi was born in the Republic of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1947.
He taught English at Collège Tchicaya in Pointe Noire for several years before working as an administrator in several ministries in Brazzaville.
His first novel, La Vie et demie (1979), was awarded the special jury’s prize at the Festival International des Francophonies in Limoges. Some of his most notable books include The Antipeople, Parentheses of Blood, and The Shameful State. He died in 1995.
Clive Wake was born in Cape Town in South Africa and studied at both Cape Town University and at the Sorbonne. He worked as a professor at the University of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and at the University of Kent, where he is now the Emeritus Professor of Modern French and African Literature. He is a prominent critic and translator in the fields of modern African and French literature.
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