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Tram 83

Mwanza Mujila, FistonMabanckou, Alain(Foreword by)Glasser, Roland(Translated by)
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"An exuberantly dark first novel." ? NPR's Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross**Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2016****Winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction**Two friends, one a budding writer home from abroad, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the most notorious nightclub?Tram 83?in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities.

Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village. **One of Flavorwire's 33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015**Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar.

Tram 83 is his award-winning and much raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.

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Product Details
Deep Vellum Publishing
1941920047 / 9781941920046
Paperback / softback
843.92
22/10/2015
United States
English
224 pages
133 x 210 mm, 241 grams