Dealing with the Dead

From one of Africa's greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history "Alain Mabanckou addresses the...
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Dealing with the Dead by Mabanckou, Alain

Dealing with the Dead

$24.99

Dealing with the Dead

$24.99
Author: Alain Mabanckou
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
From one of Africa's greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history


"Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling. His voice is vividly colloquial, mischievous and often outrageous as he explores, from multiple angles, the country where he grew up, drawing on its political conflicts and compromises, disappointments and hopes. He acts the jester, but with serious intent and lacerating effect."
-Man Booker International Prize judges' citation

One day in the Congolese town of Pointe-Noire, Liwa Ekimakingaï wakes to find himself in a cemetery where, three days earlier, he had been buried at the age of twenty-two in a pair of flared purple trousers in which he is now trapped forever. All around him are the other residents of the cemetery, all of whom have their own complex stories of life and death to share.

Bewildered by his predicament and unwilling to relinquish his tender bond with his devoted grandmother, Liwa makes his way back home to see her one last time, against all spectral advice. As he does, disturbing rumors swirl together with Liwa's jumbled memories of his last night on earth, leading him to try and solve the mystery of his own untimely demise.

Sure to appeal to readers of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Dealing with the Dead is an exuberant, phantasmagorical tale of ambition, community, and forces beyond human control, and a scathing satire on corruption and political violence by one of the most recognized chroniclers of modern Central Africa.



Author: Alain Mabanckou
Publisher: New Press
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781620979556


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 47
Publishers Weekly 07/28/2025
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2025

About the Author

Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo in 1966. An awardwinning novelist, poet, and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He is the author of African Psycho, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar, and Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty, as well as The Lights of PointeNoire, Black Moses, and The Death of Comrade President (The New Press). In 2015, Mabanckou was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.


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