Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He’s planned the crime for some time, but still, 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 Gregoire from holding lengthy conversations with him. Little by little, Gregoire interweaves Angoualima’s life and criminal exploits with his own.
African Psycho
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Serpent’s Tail
Paperback
159pp
Serpent’s Tail
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Alain Mabanckou Serpent’s Tail FBA|FYT Paperback 2017
Taxi Driver for Africa's blank generation… a pulp fiction vision of Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth that somehow manages to be both frightening and self-mocking at the same time
Time Out New York
A smart satire on the deserving targets of corrupt officialdom, complacent media and blank-eyed consumerism
New Internationalist
Disturbing – and disturbingly funny … although the title invokes American Psycho, the book owes more to Dostoyevsky and Camus
New Yorker
