Tram 83

By Fiston Mwanza MujilaTranslated from the French by Roland Glasser   Winner of the Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction 2015 Winner of a French Voices Award An exceptional debut Congolese novel, Tram 83 uses jazz rhythms to evoke the frenzied exploitation of land and people in contemporary Africa. Publication Date: September 8, 2015 Paperback: 9781941920046 eBook: 9781941920053     Description "An exuberantly dark first novel." —NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross Two friends, one a budding writer home from abroad, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the most notorious nightclub—Tram 83—in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village.     Biographical Note Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi, Democ