The heart of the leopard children
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Author
Contributions
- Lindo, Karen, translator - Contributor
Publication
2016 - , Indiana
Language
English
Word Count
19,500 words, Guess
Page Count
78 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveheartofleopardch0000nson
- ISBN-100253021901
- ISBN-139780253021908
- Library of Congress Control Number2015047348
- OCLC Control Number936205130
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780253021908
- Open LibraryOL27216074M
Classifications
- DDC843/.92
- LCCPQ3989.3.N76 C7413 2016
- LCCPQ3989.3.N76C7413
Description
A nameless young man lives in the housing projects outside of Paris. When he was a child, his parents moved with him from the Congo to France, hoping in vain to escape poverty and violence. His best friend, Drissa, is in a psychiatric hospital and now Mireille, his girlfriend, the woman with whom he has shared his childhood and hopes, has left him to reconnect with her Jewish roots in Israel. During a night out to drown the pain of his heartache, there is a fight with a policeman, the policeman dies, and the young man is arrested and taken to jail. Between police beatings and abrupt interrogations, his memory becomes his sole ally to escape from the exiguous space in which he is confined. Half-conscious and delirious, he reflects on his journey from the land of his ancestors to his life in the projects with Drissa and Mireille.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Global African voices
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