Tais-toi et meurs
2012
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216
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Quittant le Congo, Julien Makambo arrive en France sous le nom de José Montfort. Il est accueilli à Paris par Pedro, figure de proue du milieu congolais de la capitale. Sapeur à la pointe des tendances et "homme d'affaires" au bras long, Pedro prend Julien sous son aile et l'initie au monde des combines souterraines. Les affaires tournent, Julien a la vie belle et festive, jusqu'à ce vendredi 13 maudit, ou il se retrouve malgré lui mêlé à la défenestration d'une jeune femme. En prison, il écrit son histoire, celle d'un jeune homme confronté à son destin : Makambo en lingala signifie "les ennuis". Et face aux ennuis, une règle d'or règne ici en maître : Tais-toi et meurs.
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Author
Alain Mabanckou
Author · 21 books
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the coming century. His most recent book is African Psycho.
