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Memoirs of a Porcupine
Memoirs of a Porcupine | Alain Mabanckou
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All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou�s outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine. When Kibandi, (…more)
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Memoirs of a Porcupine | Alain Mabanckou
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#anditsaugust day 8: #unusualnarrators
I don't know about you but I reckon that crack (Delicious Foods) and a porcupine (Memoirs of a Porcupine) make for some rather unique narrators in literature.

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"by diving into one of these books, dear Baobab, you can take off round the world, leave the bush in the blink of an eye, turn up in a distant country, meet for-Žign people, strange animals, porcupines with even murkier pasts than mine"

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