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Le bleu est une couleur chaude tells the story of Amélie, a young french woman living "la vie quotidienne" in her small town. Her high school friends seem to be on a different page than her; they are over-involved in the dating scene while Amélie is infinitely more interested in the dusty old novels that they read in their literature class.
Arriving in Paris at the end of a trying journey, Massamba must improvise himself as a souvenir merchant for tourists. When he discovers, in real life, the Eiffel Tower that he has heard so much about... what a shock! In front of him she soars, phenomenal, like a steel rocket that pierces the clouds. Selling miniature Eiffel Towers under the big one: at first, he finds it too strong. But he must remain on the lookout...
Paris, August 2018. A supporter of a football team is found dead in the courtyard of a building. Another was assaulted on a street.
What happened? No one saw or heard anything.
Will Inspector Oscar Tenon be able to solve this mysterious case?
Forced early marriage, marital rape, consensus and polygamy. With Les Impatientes, Amal breaks taboos by denouncing the status of women in the Sahel and delivers a moving novel on the universal issue of violence against women.
It's the 1990s. And Nigeria is a country in turmoil. Decades of military dictatorship clashing with a rising demand for a return to democracy. In these uncertain times, Urichindere is a student in an elite secondary school in Lagos. This is his story; of how that dangerous, treacherous world was also a funny one, full of adventure.
Le bleu est une couleur chaude tells the story of Amélie, a young french woman living "la vie quotidienne" in her small town. Her high school friends seem to be on a different page than her; they are over-involved in the dating scene while Amélie is infinitely more interested in the dusty old novels that they read in their literature class.
Arriving in Paris at the end of a trying journey, Massamba must improvise himself as a souvenir merchant for tourists. When he discovers, in real life, the Eiffel Tower that he has heard so much about... what a shock! In front of him she soars, phenomenal, like a steel rocket that pierces the clouds. Selling miniature Eiffel Towers under the big one: at first, he finds it too strong. But he must remain on the lookout...
Paris, August 2018. A supporter of a football team is found dead in the courtyard of a building. Another was assaulted on a street.
What happened? No one saw or heard anything.
Will Inspector Oscar Tenon be able to solve this mysterious case?
Forced early marriage, marital rape, consensus and polygamy. With Les Impatientes, Amal breaks taboos by denouncing the status of women in the Sahel and delivers a moving novel on the universal issue of violence against women.
It's the 1990s. And Nigeria is a country in turmoil. Decades of military dictatorship clashing with a rising demand for a return to democracy. In these uncertain times, Urichindere is a student in an elite secondary school in Lagos. This is his story; of how that dangerous, treacherous world was also a funny one, full of adventure.
