The heart of the leopard children /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	N'Sondé, Wilfried, author.
Uniform title:	Coeur des enfants léopards. English
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 78 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Global African voices Global African voices.
Subject:	Africans -- France -- Fiction. Immigrants -- France -- Fiction. Youth -- France -- Fiction. Africans. Immigrants. Youth. France. Electronic books. Fiction.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11910106

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Other authors / contributors:	Lindo, Karen, translator.
ISBN:	9780253021922 0253021928 9780253021908 0253021901
Notes:	English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 26, 2016).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: N'Sondé, Wilfried. Coeur des enfants léopards. English. Heart of the leopard children. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] 9780253021908 0253021901

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