The Villains Dance, Fiston Mwanza Mujila
The Villains Dance, Fiston Mwanza Mujila
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The Villain's Dance

Author: Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Roland Glasser

Narrator: Amir Abdullah

Unabridged: 6 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2024


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike on October 02, 2024

Now a Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2024 English: The Villain's Dance Congolese-Austrian author Mujila writes about life in the borderlands between Zaire and Angola in the 1990's: In the author's hometown of Lubumbashi (then Zaire), a gang of street kids and an Austria......more

Goodreads review by Anna Carina on October 16, 2024

Ja komm, auch wenn mir der Jazz des Buches (der Autor hat beim Schreiben tatsächlich Jazz gehört🤪) zwischenzeitlich alle Nerven geraubt hat, ist das ne hammer hart gut gearbeitete Sache. Nen wirklichen Plot gibts nicht. Das ist ehr eine große Straßenparty mit Ausflügen ins Mambo um den Tanz der Teuf......more

Goodreads review by Günter on October 16, 2024

Jetzt wollte ich vor allem schreiben, dass ich froh bin, dass ich damit endlich durch bin, dass das ein anstrengendes Stück Lesearbeit war. Andererseits dann Anna Carinas Rezension gelesen. Die hat schon auch recht und ich verweise gerne darauf. Einig sind wir uns jedenfalls darin, dass das Vorgänge......more

Goodreads review by Cici on November 08, 2024

A book where I could tell I was reading a translation, from its unsteady gait. I would love to read the original to see how much of the staccato was from the author vs the translator. Dad and I certainly shared some laughs… Under other circumstances I probably wouldn’t have made it very far into this......more

Goodreads review by Esther on January 22, 2023

Comme dans Tram 83, il y a des éléments qui font beaucoup de plaisir dans les livres de Fiston Mwanza Mujila: ce rythme de vie, de la musique, de la langue, cet exotisme, cette vivacité. Mais également comme dans Tram83, je n’ai pas réussi de vraiment suivre l’histoire, les personnages sont restés l......more