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Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 In an unnamed African city-state riven by civil war profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities mix. They have only one desire to make a fortune by exploiting the mineral wealth of the land. Two friends a budding writer home from Europe and his childhood friend who dreams of taking over the seedy underworld of th Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 In an unnamed African city-state riven by civil war profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities mix. They have only one desire to make a fortune by exploiting the mineral wealth of the land. Two friends a budding writer home from Europe and his childhood friend who dreams of taking over the seedy underworld of their city meet in the most notorious nightclub in town Tram 83 and are sucked into a dizzying lurid world of gangsters and crooks poets and sex workers soldiers and spies tourists and stowaways.Tram 83 plunges the reader into a modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic. A daring feat of narrative imagination and linguistic creativity this stunning debut uses the rhythms of jazz to weave a darkly exuberant tale of human relationships greed and excess in a world that has become a global village. About the AuthorFiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of Congo where he went to a Catholic school before studying literature and human sciences at Lubumbashi University. He now lives in Graz Austria and is pursuing a PhD in Romance Languages. His writing has been awarded numerous prizes including the Gold Medal at the 6th Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut as well as the Best Text for Theatre Preis fu r das beste Stu ck State Theatre Mainz in 2010. His poems prose works and plays are reactions to the political turbulence that has come in the wake of the independence of the Congo and its effect on day-to-day life. Tram 83 is his first novel. It has been shortlisted for and won several literary prizes in France Austria England and the United States.

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 In an unnamed African city-state riven by civil war profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities mix. They have only one desire to make a fortune by exploiting the mineral wealth of the land. Two friends a budding writer home from Europe and his childhood friend who dreams of taking over the seedy underworld of th Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 In an unnamed African city-state riven by civil war profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities mix. They have only one desire to make a fortune by exploiting the mineral...  Read More