The Laughing Cry: An African Cock and Bull Story - Hardcover

Lopes, Henri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0930523326 ISBN 13: 9780930523329

Publisher: Readers International, 1987

Synopsis

Satirizes African politics through the story of the adventures of the dictator Marshal Hannibal-Ideloy Bwakamabe Na Sakkade

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Review:

"Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so will certainly be turned on by Henri Lopes' The Laughing Cry . . . this writer has the same feel for the literary burlesque that Woody Allen has for the
philosophical kvetch." --San Francisco Examiner

"Satirical, tender, bawdy, savage, and fi lled with love and hope." --The Washington Post

"Mr Lopes has both the experience to give his work its grounding in reality and suffi cient distance to give his contempt its cutting edge." --New York Times Book Review

"Beaumarchais . . . Diderot . . . what on earth, you may ask, has the eighteenth century got to do with a political satire about contemporary Africa? . . . Lopes' satirical style, with its mixture of ribaldry and cruelty, does hark back to the forthright age of Swift and Voltaire." --BBC World Service Book Talks

"Superb book . . . done in fluent translation." --Publishers' Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Readers International
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0930523326
• ISBN 13: 9780930523329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260