Tram 83 [Paperback]

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Category: Books (Fiction)
Author: Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
Author: Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
ISBN-10: 1941920047
ISBN-10: 1941920047
ISBN-13: 9781941920046
ISBN-13: 9781941920046
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Binding: Paperback
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 01-May-2015
Pub Date: 01-May-2015
SKU: 1941920047-11-MING
SKU: 1941920047-11-MING
Item ID: 100368541

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An exuberantly dark first novel. —NPR's Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross

**Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2016**

**Winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction**

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 83plunges 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.

**One of Flavorwire's 33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015**
Fiston Mwanza Mujila(b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar.Tram 83is his award-winning and much raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.

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