Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
Kourouma, Ahmadou / Coates, Carrol F.
Characterized as "the African Voltaire", Ahmadou Kourouma garnered enormous critical and popular praise upon the 1998 release of his third novel, En attendant le vote des betes sauvages. Kourouma received the Prix ties Tropiques, among other prestigious prizes, for that book, and the French edition went on to sell 100, 000 copies. His most recent novel, Allah n'est pas oblige, is the winner of this year's Prix Renaudot.Carrol F. Coates's trans...