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The Villain's Dance
A General Fiction Novel by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- African Fiction,
- Multi-POV
This book is for you if you're into...
- Late 90s Zaire street life with sharp humor and music
- Stories where hustlers and dreamers cross paths in chaotic times
- Multiple storylines converging around a legendary dancehall scene
Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.
Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street kids led by the devious Ngungi. A chance encounter with the mysterious Monsieur Guillaume seems to offer a way out . . .
Meanwhile in Angola, Molakisi has joined thousands of fellow Zairians hoping to make their fortunes hunting diamonds, while Austrian Franz finds himself roped into writing the memoirs of the charismatic Tshiamuena, the 'Madonna of the Cafunfo Mines.'
Things are drawing to a head, but at the Mambo de la Fête, they still dance the Villain's Dance from dusk till dawn.
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