Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals Kourouma Coates Hardback 9780813920221

Waiting for the Vote of the Wild AnimalsAuthor(s): Ahmadou Kourouma, Carrol F. Coates\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813920221, 978-0813920221\nSynopsis\nCharacterized 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 des 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 translation, Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals, introduces English-language audiences to Kourouma's irreverent view of the machinations of the African dictators who played the West against the East during the thirty years of the cold war. Profiting from western financial support, the dictators.