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The Greats

The Greats


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Guinea-Bissau, 2012. Mixing fiction and fact, Sylvain Prudhomme revisits the famous '70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through the eyes of Couto, the laconic guitarist. After learning of the death of the singer, Dulce--once the love of his life&mdashCouto wanders through the capital city, from bar to bar, friend to friend. Thirty years file past in his memories: of the woman he loved, of guerillas fighting against Portuguese colonizers, and of the golden days of a legendary band that played all over the world with a sound that was new, fresh, and driven by the pride of an entire country.

Tension mounts page after page as the group prepares a final concert in Dulce's honour, even as a coup d'ï¿1/2tat is prepared by her husband, Guinea-Bissau's Army Chief of Staff.

Priase for The Greats:

The chronicle of a success story, a story of love and friendship set against the backdrop of a coup d'ï¿1/2tat, The Greats is also a beautifully written book. Vibrant and smooth, each line pulls us into an avalanche of sensations, of carnal notes where the 'descending tone' of creole words are scattered like pearls.... A sumptuous stroll through an Africa on the verge of a rebirth. --Les Inrockuptibles

A magnificent ode to music, love, and friendship.... This book will change you. --Lire

It's a coup. A wild success. --l'Express

One of the most poetic texts of the new literary season. --Des livresLanguorous and taut, Les grands is full of swing and style.... Readers will savour each note. --Livres hebdo
About the Author: Sylvain Prudhomme is considered one of the most exciting contemporary novelists in France. He has been steadily gaining in recognition and popularity over the past three years. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Prix Littï¿1/2raire de la Porte Dorï¿1/2e for his novel Les grands, which also won the Prix Georges Brassens in 2014, and was celebrated as one of 2014's best books of the literary season.

Jessica Moore is a Montreal-based author and translator. Mend the Living, Moore's translation of the novel by French author Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She also won a PEN America Translation Award for her translation of Turkana Boy (Talonbooks). Moore's collection of poems, Everything, now, has been called a powerful journey through love and loss--serving, ultimately, to unsettle any notion of a boundary between them. She is the former VP for Ontario for the Literary Translators' Association of Canada, a past BILTC participant, a Lannan writer-in-residence, and has appeared at the IFOA and in France at Le Festival VO/VF. Jessica Moore is an author and translator. Her collection of poems, Everything, now (Brick Books 2012), is partly a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy (Talonbooks 2012) by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation Award. Mend the Living, Jessica's translation of the novel by French author Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize and won the £30,000 Wellcome Prize in 2017. Jessica lives in Toronto.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781771663465
  • Publisher: Book Thug
  • Publisher Imprint: Book Thug
  • Height: 201 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 322 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1771663464
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 132 mm

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