By Jean Marc Ah-Sen
ISBN-10: 1771661305
ISBN-13: 9781771661300
Mauritian Kreol, English, and French mix jointly right into a heady brew of language in Grand Menteur. Written in a nuanced variety reflecting the island-nation's convoluted background of colonialism, this debut novel by way of Jean Marc Ah-Sen sheds an unflinching gentle at the poverty and down-and-out difficulty of a shadow type of immigrants from the Nineteen Forties to the '80s.
Their tale, with parts of child/parent relatives and the tumultuous feelings tied to leaving domestic for greener pastures, will resonate with readers accustomed to diasporic fiction, experience and travelogue writing, and 'lock, inventory and barrel' British crime fiction.
Praise for Grand Menteur:
"Jean Marc Ah-Sen's Grand Menteur is a stunning show of diction, choked with Mauritian Kreol, Latin tags and masterful English, with impressive narrative momentum. From the island of Mauritius to the island of britain and later, homeless shelters in Toronto, it's a interesting tale of Mauritian road gangs, emigration, capers that don’t pay, and a father-daughter courting like no different. Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s Grand Menteur is voice-driven fiction at its lyrical best."
—John Goldbach, writer of The satan and The Detective
“What an odd and impressive ebook — it reads like a magic trick no one’s ever performed ahead of or a delusion of a fantasy — it’s too mysterious, too unique, too humorous, too natural, too profound to be the paintings of a mortal being.” — Lee Henderson
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