Tram 83

Tram 83

<div><p>Two friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the 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>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 raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.</div>