Cockroach Dance - Couverture souple

Mwangi, Meja

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 058200392X ISBN 13 : 9780582003927

Editeur : Longman, 1990

Synopsis

The story of one man's resistance to a system and society run by "faceless ones". Dusman Gonzaga lives in a squalid tenement building overrun with cockroaches and inhabited by strange characters. His is a world of poverty, fights, bar women and visits to a doctor who doesn't understand him.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Dusman Gonzaga shares a squalid apartment with human misery and poverty and cockroaches. The old building belongs to a wealthy slumlord with a heart of stone and Dusman’s neighbours include garbage collectors, street hawkers, criminals, wise men and mad men and numerous faceless ones. Dusman attempts to organise them to boycott paying rent, in order to force the landlord to lower rents, but finds he himself standing alone. Then he hatches an unscrupulous plot so devious his neighbours can’t back out of the imminent confrontation. ‘Meja Mwangi spins a fascinating tale of one man’s revolt against exploitation’. The Daily Nation

Biographie de l'auteur

MEJA MWANGI, the acclaimed author of “Going Down River Road” "The Cockroach Dance" and “Kill Me Quick”, is an eclectic writer whose work also includes “The Insect Woman”, “Crossroads”, “Carcase for Hounds”, and “Christmas Without Tusker”.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Longman
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 058200392X
• ISBN 13: 9780582003927
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible