Synopsis
It's urban Africa: a world of French cars, Lebanese hardware stores, and American movies, not jungle and savannah-and of working-class Africans, not rich white men on safari.
It's an off-beat, violent, darkly comic window onto post-colonial Africa and the children of expatriates on a single day in a West African city in the 1970s.
Under its Elmore Leonard caper-gone-wrong thriller surface it's an examination, closer to V. S. Naipaul or Athol Fugard, of the changing and unchanging tragicomic rules of life for both Black men and White adolescents in newly independent but recently colonial Africa.
It's an abandoned nightclub at the top of an isolated hill overlooking the city: the Club Balafon.
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À propos de l?auteur
Stuart Gelzer, the child of American missionaries, grew up in Cameroon and India. Over the years he's been a screenwriter, a film editor, a drama teacher, a film and photography teacher, and a singer specializing in folk music from the Republic of Georgia. Nowadays he does fine-art photography, writes fiction and travel memoir, and translates old French popular novels. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Club Balafon
Edité par
Bertie Stanhope Press, 2023
ISBN 13 : 9798987808108
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Vendeur : Buchpark, Trebbin, Allemagne
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Etat : Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 278 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | It's urban Africa: a world of French cars, Lebanese hardware stores, and American movies, not jungle and savannah-and of working-class Africans, not rich white men on safari. It's an off-beat, violent, darkly comic window onto post-colonial Africa and the children of expatriates on a single day in a West African city in the 1970s. Under its Elmore Leonard caper-gone-wrong thriller surface it's an examination, closer to V. S. Naipaul or Athol Fugard, of the changing and unchanging tragicomic rules of life for both Black men and White adolescents in newly independent but recently colonial Africa. It's an abandoned nightclub at the top of an isolated hill overlooking the city: the Club Balafon. N° de réf. du vendeur 42822126/1
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