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Author Khouma, Pap.

Title I was an elephant salesman : adventures between Dakar, Paris, and Milan / Pap Khouma ; edited by Oreste Pivetta ; translated by Rebecca Hopkins ; introduction by Graziella Parati
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 138 pages)
Series Global African voices
Global African voices.
Contents Selling -- Illegal -- Africa -- Market in Abidjan -- Dakar-Riccione -- Street-smart ... beach-smart -- Italian money -- Paolo il nero -- Girls from Senegal -- Police ... just joking! -- Germany via Paris -- A month in Paris -- The Foreign legion -- From Paris to Riccione -- The car-house -- Double Malaw -- Chief Laman -- A Senegalese lunch -- A dresser in Piacenza -- The end of ma -- Milanese chronicles -- A run on the beach -- Dakar via Moscow -- Life in Senegal -- A tourist in Rome -- To catch a thief -- Lacoste -- Fights in the metro -- Changes -- Political accusations -- Children
Summary Autobiographical novel about the life of an illegal Senegalese immigrant in Europe
Notes Print version record
Subject Italian fiction.
Italian literature.
Noncitizens -- Africa -- Fiction
Noncitizens -- Europe -- Fiction
Illegal immigration -- Africa -- Fiction
Illegal immigration -- Europe -- Fiction
Noncitizens
Illegal immigration
Italian literature
Italian fiction
Africa
Europe
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Pivetta, Oreste, 1949-
Crockett-Hopkins, Rebecca.
ISBN 9781441669773
1441669779
9780253004604
0253004608
1282818368
9781282818361
Other Titles Io, venditore di elefanti. English