Africa: literary season, the choice of Soumbala - Romans African
1 - Structures authors from sub-Saharan Africa or the Indian Ocean
Marie Ndiaye Three powerful women
Gallimard - Paris - 2009
316 p. 14 x 20.4 cm - ISBN: 9782070786541 Three stories, three women who say no. They called Norah, Fanta Demba Khady. Each is struggling to maintain his dignity against humiliation that life inflicts a methodical and incomprehensible obstinacy. The Art of Marie Ndiaye appears here in all its uniqueness and mystery. Force of his writing lies in its apparent mildness, with slow convolutions that involve the reader in the glaze of a perfect prose and sophisticated in the intricacies of a conscience left to the pure feelings of violence. RRP publisher: 19euros / Soumbala Price: 18,05 EUR - ORDER FROM soumbala ANANDA The Sari Devi green
Gallimard (White) - Paris - 2009
224 p. 14 x 20.4 cm - ISBN: 9782070302185
In a house in Curepipe, Mauritius on an old doctor in agony is watched over by her daughter and granddaughter. Between them and her dialogue is woven of extreme violence, which gradually exposed elements of the past, memories, reproaches, and especially the mysterious figure of the mother of Kitty, the wife of "Dokter-God", which disappeared in terrible circumstances. They will not let him go in peace.
RRP publisher: 16.5 EUR / Soumbala Price: EUR 15.67 -
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Abdurahman Ali Waberi Passage tears
Lattès - Paris - 2009
224 p. 14 x 20.4 cm - ISBN: 9782709631
Djibril left Djibouti for many years. In Montreal, he became a new man: the country of his childhood is more to him than a foreign land, dusty wasteland. Employed by an intelligence agency, it must nevertheless go back to a mission a few days. Djibouti has become a major geostrategic stakes: France, the United States, Dubai, Islamists argue that piece of basalt. Djibril has nothing to do with their quarrels but feel betrayed by this country born, like him, a June 17, 1977, Independence Day. Open wounds, the ghosts come to haunt his family, his investigation stalled. Every day he leaves on the paths of dangerous memory. Hidden from his prison on Devil's islands, off Djibouti, Djamal, Djibril's twin brother, born just minutes after he has learned the return of his prodigal elder: he follows in spirit wherever he goes, the 'calls, do not leave in peace. There is no return with impunity on its past.
A very fine novel which speaks of the time, exile and the mythical figure of the writer Walter Benjamin, who haunts the imagination of these two lost brothers. Abdurahman A. Waberi composes a narrative sensitive, poetic and panting and takes us through from one side of the country sands, islands and passages.
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Edem Awumey
feet dirty
Gallimard (White) - Paris - 2009
156 p. 13.9 x 20.5 cm - ISBN: 9782021003437
In search of the man who was perhaps his father, Askia the exile in Paris turning around, driving his taxi along the banks of the Seine, where skinheads prowl determined to make the skin to men of color.
In the Parisian night, Askia and Olia pursuing shadows. The first is a dark Telemachus driving a taxi in the footsteps of dreary father. As for her, she tracks down his camera figures of men and women without a country, the dirty feet of land from running the world. As these clandestine, each blade that are the gods of the exodus back to their childhood in South to North wanderings. From Africa to European shores of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ... beings in search of bread, hope. Of land too. Olia Can she help Askia in his despair? And if the last hello, the country ended their final journey was love in the eyes of others? Meanwhile, the hatred of skinheads are ready. To finish with the remaining foreign editor ...
RRP: 17 euros / Soumbala Price: 16.14 Euro -
ORDER FROM soumbala Boubacar Boris Diop Small
the monkey
Philippe Rey - Paris - 2009
439 p. - 19 x 14.5 cm - ISBN: 9782848761459
I would rather talk to you orally, as any storyteller worthy of this name to your heart beat faster and test you by my baffling puzzles. [...] I write, for lack of better, because otherwise I would not care to be dead or alive. "
These are the words of a very old man, Nguirane Faye, at his grand-son Badou. On the evening of his life, he suffered no news of him, emigrated in some distant foreign country. They meet again, he knows it. He decides to tell him everything in seven books that the young man will find his return to Niaréla. But what should be a simple relationship of the daily life of a Dakar neighborhood gradually became a prolific fiction. Nguirane Faye takes stock of his own life and makes us discover a subtle crossover stories, the history of his ancestors, the ancient kingdoms, the great writers Wolof and Senegal today. Both political tale and intimate narrative, this ambitious novel revisits tirelessly mythical past to illuminate a troubling modernity.The smaller the monkey is the French version of Doom Golo novel in Wolof Boubacar Boris Diop, published in 2003 by Editions Papyrus, Dakar. The translation has been provided freely by the author himself.
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Martin took some time to find out new contexts on how to clevery put the stickers to work, and he found one. In Switzerland there is a really nasty political initiative going on to forbid the construction of minarets . The voting will be in 1 week. 
Yesterday in Argentina, Clarín year published article about Who subverted artists in advertising public spaces: Jordan Seiler, Posterboy, The Bubble Project ...and The Pop_Down Project. 
Edem Awumey 
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If you live in Wroclaw , stop by Kalaczakra (Gallery and Coffee) and ask for Magda . Thank her for this photo and she'll give you some stickers , if you want to pop_down the fresh new big LCD screen in the old town of Klodzko (as an exemple). Piotr ? Andrzej ? Who's the next volunteer? 
