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  • Standing Heavy

    by Gauz' ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    Series Book 42 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize • Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus' Best Fall Books of 2023A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Comrade Papa

    by Gauz' ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    Series Book 49 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Fiction in TranslationInternational 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 ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Standing Heavy

    by Gauz' ...
    Narrated by Diontae Black ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 57 min

    A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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