Little Boys Come from the Stars
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Publish date: 12/01/2007
Description:
His nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble". He is an African child of the '90s -- brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern -- caught in the crossfire of a chaotically liberated African country. Matapari grows up in a world of talking drums, the Internet, and satellite TV, a world of dictators who remake themselves as democrats overnight. His uncle is a stooge for the dictator; his father is a scholarly recluse obsessed with proving that blacks played key roles in Western history. Matapari is a young man in the middle -- but the shrewdness and wit with which he tells his often riotously funny story set him apart from his relatives and countrymen. Emmanuel Dongala uses the ingenious viewpoint of a child to show up the telltale world of adults -- and to show how one preserves one's independence in a corrupt and violent society.
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