Description
In a coastal town where violence is met with indifference, a man murders his wife over something as petty as lice—and the authorities respond with bureaucratic shrugging that turns justice into farce. As the case ripples outward, the story follows Lorsa Lopez through a series of “solitudes,” each one exposing a different face of oppression: domestic cruelty, institutional corruption, and the social machinery that normalizes both. Blending comic outrage with surreal, burlesque storytelling, the book offers a sharp, high-energy portrait of postcolonial life and the struggle for women’s liberation in a world determined to silence them. With Sony Labou Tansi’s distinctive satirical style—part fable, part grotesque comedy—this is a biting meditation on power, complicity, and the absurd lengths regimes will go to avoid accountability.
Available Editions
paperback
Heinemann Educational
Published Jan 1, 1995
144 pages
ISBN: 9780435905941
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First Published
1995
Language
eng
Translation
From: fra
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