Description
In an isolated Congolese town, a teacher’s life is upended when a student’s suicide note falsely claims she was pregnant with his child. As Dadou tries to hold on to love, dignity, and truth, his world is gradually dismantled by rumor, desire, and the corrosive machinery of power. Two young women, Yavelde and Yealdara, draw him into competing intimacies, while a web of political intrigue and moral compromise spreads through Valancia like a contagion. Darkly comic and deeply human, this novel by Sony Labou Tansi blends satire with tragedy to explore how institutions weaponize intimacy, how communities manufacture guilt, and how love can become both refuge and trap.
Available Editions
paperback
Marion Boyars Publishers
Published Jan 1, 1990
170 pages
ISBN: 9780714529011
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Details
First Published
1990
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Antipeople by Sony Labou Tansi.