Tram 83

Tram 83

<div><p><B>"An exuberantly dark first novel." €" <I>NPR's Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross</I></B></p><p><B>**Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2016**</B></p><p><B>**Shortlisted for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction**</B></p></p><p>Two friends, one a budding writer home from abroad, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the most notorious nightclub€"Tram 83€"in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. <I>Tram 83 </I>plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village.</p><B><p>**One of Flavorwire's 33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015**</p><p><B>Fiston Mwanza Mujila </B>(b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar. <I>Tram 83 </I>is his award-winning and much raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.<br></div>