Comrade Papa
A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Fiction in Translation
International Booker-nominated satirist GauZ' returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.
Mourning the recent deaths of his parents, a young white man in nineteenth-century France joins a colonial expedition attempting to establish trading routes on the Ivory Coast and finds himself caught between...
GauZ' is an Ivoirian author, journalist and screenwriter. After studying biochemistry, he moved to Paris as an undocumented student, working as a security guard before returning to the C?te d'Ivoire. His debut novel, Standing Heavy, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and won the Prix des libraires Gibert Joseph, and was followed by Comrade Papa, which won the 2019 Prix ?thiophile,...
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