Little Boys Come From The Stars

Emmanuel Dongala

Anchor Books-2001

Used Paperback

Cover has wear mostly around the edges and corners. Spine has no creasing. Pages are clean no internal tears, marks, or creases.

Set in an unnamed country in equatorial Africa, it tells the story of Michel, a precocious teen dubbed Matapari (trouble) because of his extraordinary birth. Though his father is a reclusive scholar, his mother a pious though confused Catholic, and his uncle a shameless opportunist determined to gain power in the shifting politics of their post-colonial nation, Matapari remains an unsullied child who wears Reeboks, drinks Coke, reads Japanese comics, and watches Rambo. But when his family becomes the nucleus of the revolution for democracy, Matapari proves to be the ideal narrator for this story of violent upheaval and bloody corruptiona voice whose ironic innocence makes bearable and even humorous the awful realities of the world it describes.

K-3