{"product_id":"blue-white-red-9780253007919","title":"Blue White Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. \u003ci\u003eBlue White Red\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of \u003ci\u003eDigol\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11205662\"\u003eAlain Mabanckou\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.41h x 5.53w x 0.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253007919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0253007917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC052000\"\u003eSatire\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlain Mabanckou is the author of several prize-winning novels, including \u003ci\u003eMémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine)\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eBlue White Red\u003c\/i\u003e is winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire. He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison Dundy lives in New York City and works as a librarian, archivist, and translator. She has also translated Sony Labou Tansi's \u003ci\u003eLife and a Half\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42663249576173,"sku":"9780253007919","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_9e222ff9-93ad-495d-a911-b33e3490a3c6.jpg?v=1649393160","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/blue-white-red-9780253007919","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}