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African Psycho

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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 “The novel with which [Mabanckou] cemented his reputation as one of French-language fiction’s leading lights . . . Black as pitch and bitter as wormwood, a razor-sharp satire in which the trials of a would-be serial killer are played for laughs.” —Times Literary Supplement Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, American Psycho. But while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, the protagonist of African Psycho is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He’s been planning the crime for some time. But the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, the far more accomplished serial killer Angoualima. The fact that Angoualima is dead doesn’t prevent...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18465497
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Year:
2025
Publisher:
Catapult
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781933368504
ISBN:
9781593768164,9781933368504

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