African Psycho

By Alain Mabanckou, Christine Schwartz Hartley (translator),

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Book description

Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He’s planned the crime for some time, but…

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Why read it?

1 author picked African Psycho as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A very interesting and different take on the crime noval. We see crime from the criminal's point of view but that criminal, despite his willingness and enthusiasm, just isn't very good at it.

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