04006cam a2200349 i 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016008004100033020003100074020002800105035002200133040007000155041001100225050002800236100020900264245005300473264002800526300002400554490003100578520129900609520135401908650004403262650003903306650004103345650004603386655001903432655002503451830006603476942000803542952009103550999001503641a48800712SIRSI20260304140548.0250627t20252025fr            000 f fre d  a9782021591859q(paperback)  a2021591859q(paperback)  a(OCoLC)1534081360  aAUXAMbengerdacAUXAMdINDdYDXdOCLCOdPULdOCLCQdUPMdUtOrBLW  aFrench 4aPQ3989.2.M217bR36 2025  aMabanckou, Alain, - 1966- author.d1966-eauthor.1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmP3CtvxyVyrfjcGdgYfq0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no960082674http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aRamsès de Paris b: roman c/ Alain Mabanckou. 1aParis :bSeuil,c[2025]  a256 pages ;c21 cm.1 aCollection "Fiction & Cie"  a"Le narrateur de ce roman, jeune écrivain en herbe qui se fait volontiers appeler Berado prince de Zamunda, vit sous la coupe et dans l'ombre de son grand frère des faubourgs de Pointe-Noire, un certain Benoît, qu'il est venu rejoindre à Paris. Ce dernier, personnage fantasque, exerce sa verve dans le quartier de Château Rouge. Tout n'est pas bien clair dans sa vie, sinon qu'il sait charmer, les dames en premier. Il accumule les aventures de tous ordres, jusqu'au jour où il s'engage avec Lilwenn, qu'il épouse bientôt. Au grand désarroi de maman Mushama, la tenancière du restaurant Manioc Pays. Tout est réuni pour une embrouille. Mais les pistes se mélangent. Berado cherche à fausser les cartes, et pour imposer sa version des faits il se rend chez Ramsès, le réceptionniste et barman du Salam Hôtel, dans le XIe arrondissement. Son récit commence, sans cesse interrompu, et bientôt il plonge dans un étrange flottement, entre rêve et réalité. Est-ce l'effet du thé qu'on lui sert ? Dans ce roman à la fois drôle et sarcastique, Alain Mabanckou offre les Mille et Une Nuits de l'exil africain, dont les personnages hauts en couleur sont parfois des sortes de Pieds nickelés. On s'y attache, on rit. On en redemande."--Page 4 of cover.  aThe narrator of this novel, a budding young writer who rather likes to call himself Berado, Prince of Zamunda, lives under the influence and in the shadow of his older brother from the outskirts of Pointe-Noire, a certain Benoît, whom he has come to join in Paris. Benoît, an eccentric character, plies his wit and charm in the Château Rouge district. Not much about his life is entirely clear, except that he knows how to charm people—ladies first and foremost. He piles up adventures of every kind, until the day he commits himself to Lilwenn, whom he soon marries. Much to the dismay of Mama Mushama, the owner of the Manioc Pays restaurant. All the ingredients are there for trouble.

But the trail soon becomes tangled. Berado tries to stack the cards in his favour, and to impose his own version of events he goes to see Ramsès, the receptionist and barman at the Salam Hotel in the 11th arrondissement. His story begins—constantly interrupted—and before long he slips into a strange state of suspension, somewhere between dream and reality. Is it the effect of the tea he is served?

In this novel, at once humorous and sharply sarcastic, Alain Mabanckou offers a kind of Arabian Nights of African exile, peopled with colourful characters who sometimes resemble lovable rogues. We grow fond of them, we laugh—and we want more. 0aAfricans — France — Fiction.926782 0aParis (France) — Fiction.926785 0aAfrican diaspora — Fiction.926784 0aImmigrants — France — Fiction.926783 0aFiction922716 0aFrench novels923601 0aFiction & Cie.0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42011450  2lcc  00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2026-03-04l0r2026-03-04t1w2026-03-04y1zSOON AVAILABLE  c5376d5376