Blue White Red. Alain Mabanckou
presumptuous and who gave the best of myself. That’s what I expect.
It’s difficult for me to step back from this. Things are happening fast. Tonight? Tomorrow? Day after tomorrow? I have no idea what day it is. My reminiscence is an unavoidable internal examination to ease my conscience, freed from the sludge of remorse that crushes my thoughts . . .
With perseverance and dogged determination for a shovel, I’ll take whatever time it takes to exhume all those moments that catapulted me from near and far, all the way to this place, more than six thousand kilometers from the land where I was born.
PART ONE
The Country
It is better to dream one’s life than to live it, though even living it is to dream it.
—Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
MOKI AND HIS RETURN
MOKI’S SHADOW
MOKI’S FATHER
GENERAL DE GAULLE
THE WHITE VILLA
TAXIS
THE TALE OF ARISTOCRATS
THE NEWBORN
PARIS IS A BIG BOY
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