The Villain's Dance
Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Sep 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Amir Abdullah
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Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.
Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street kids led by the devious Ngungi. A chance encounter with the mysterious Monsieur Guillaume seems to offer a way out . . . Meanwhile in Angola, Molakisi has joined thousands of fellow Zairians hoping to make their fortunes hunting diamonds, while Austrian Franz finds himself roped into writing the memoirs of the charismatic Tshiamuena, the "Madonna of the Cafunfo Mines." Things are drawing to a head, but at the Mambo de la Fête, they still dance the Villain's Dance from dusk till dawn.
Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.
Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street kids led by the devious Ngungi. A chance encounter with the mysterious Monsieur Guillaume seems to offer a way out . . . Meanwhile in Angola, Molakisi has joined thousands of fellow Zairians hoping to make their fortunes hunting diamonds, while Austrian Franz finds himself roped into writing the memoirs of the charismatic Tshiamuena, the "Madonna of the Cafunfo Mines." Things are drawing to a head, but at the Mambo de la Fête, they still dance the Villain's Dance from dusk till dawn.
Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.
Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless ...
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He studied Literature and Human Services at Lubumbashi University. He writes poems, prose works, and Plays. His debut novel was Tram 83 for which he recieved a French Voices 2014 grant recipient. And it won the Grand Prix du Premier Roman des SGDL. His writing also received the Gold Medal at the 6th Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut as well as the Best Text for Theater (State Theater, Mainz) in 2010.
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He studied Literature and Human Services at Lubumbashi University. He writes poems, prose works, and Plays. His debut novel was Tram 83 for which he recieved a French Voices 2014 grant recipient. And it won the...
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