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Published by Anagrama · History and archaeology · ISBN 9788433981257

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In 1938 an African writer, T. C. Elimane, published a novel that turned into a scandal: he was accused of plagiarism and vanished. In 2018 Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer living in Paris, gets hold of a copy of that lost book and starts to look into what became of its author. The search takes him across several eras and places.

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Who it's for
For readers who enjoy novels about writers and books, held together by an investigation and built from letters, diaries and stories within the story. It also deals with colonialism and what it means to be an African writer in France. Readers of Bolaño will recognise the influence: the title comes from The Savage Detectives.
Why people still read it
It won the Prix Goncourt in 2021, the first for a writer from sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the Prix Transfuge and the Hennessy book prize.

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