Mabanckou Alain - Black Bazaar - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend Original Colour has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked accusing him of 'digging a hole in the Dole'. And his drinking buddies at Jips the Afro - Cuban bar in Les Halles pour scorn on Black Bazaar the journal he keeps to log his sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner shop has a kind word; while at night his dreams are stalked by the cannibal pygmies of Gabon. Then again Buttologist wears no ordinary uppers. He has style bags of it (suitcases of crocodile and anaconda Westons to be precise). He's a dandy from the Bacongo district of Brazzaville - AK a a sapeur or member of the Society of Ambience - makers and People of Elegance. But is flaunting sartorial chic against tough times enough for Buttologist to cut it in the City of Light?
Title: Black Bazaar
Author(s): Mabanckou Alain
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781846687778
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 7/5/2012
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction