Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty

by Alain Mabanckou

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Loun s dream about the countries where they'll land. While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846685842
• ISBN13: 9781846685842
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.