Comrade Papa by Gauz'

Comrade Papa

International Booker-nominated satirist GauZ' returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.In an...
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Author: Gauz'
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Language: English
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Comrade Papa by Gauz'

Comrade Papa

¥4,156

Comrade Papa

¥4,156
Author: Gauz'
Format: Paperback
Language: English

International Booker-nominated satirist GauZ' returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.

In an attempt to avoid life as a factory worker, Dabilly, a young white man in late nineteenth-century France, seeks colonial adventure in Africa. Still mourning the recent deaths of his parents, he joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes on the Ivory coast which, in 1880, is still untouched by colonization.

A century later, a young Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam starts learning about his heritage. When he arrives in Cote d'Ivoire to visit his grandmother and uncover more about his ancestry, he discovers surprising traces of an ancestor he never knew existed.

Superimposing these two coming-of-age stories, GauZ' plunges the reader into the lives of two very different people and reveals the long arc of African colonization. In exuberant and ornate prose, translated by award-winning Frank Wynne, Comrade Papa is a remarkable, enlightening postcolonial consideration of the soul, and what it means to search for fulfillment.



Author: Gauz'
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781771966450

About the Author

GauZ' is an Ivoirian author, journalist and screenwriter. After studying biochemistry, he moved to Paris as an undocumented student, working as a security guard before returning to the Côte d'Ivoire. His debut novel, Standing Heavy, won the Prix des libraires Gibert Joseph and was followed by Comrade Papa, which won the 2019 Prix Éthiophile, and Black Manoo. Gauz is the editor-in-chief of the satirical economic newspaper News & co, and has written screenplays and documentary films.

Frank Wynne is an award-winning Irish writer and translator from French and Spanish. Over a career spanning more than 20 years, Wynne has translated a wide variety of authors, including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, and Emiliano Monge. He has twice been awarded both the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation from the French and the Premio Valle Inclán for translation from Spanish. Most recently, his translation of Animalia by Jean-Baptiste del Amo won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize.


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