The Last Griot
Moussa Traore
The Last Griot
Moussa TraoreCFA 8,000
Priced by the author in XOF (Mali). You pay the NGN equivalent at today’s rate.
About this book
The final keeper of a family's eight-hundred-year memory has a grandson who wants to be an accountant. A novel about what dies quietly.
Sample
When the old man forgot the third verse, the village understood that a library was closing. Salif had carried the lineage of four hundred years in his mouth: the wars, the marriages, the debts that were still, technically, owed. He had never learned to read, because reading was for people who could afford to forget. His granddaughter came from Bamako with a recorder and the wrong questions. "Start at the beginning," she said. "There is no beginning," Salif told her. "Ther…
The author
Moussa Traore is a Malian novelist and oral historian, apprenticed for nine years to a jeli in Kita.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 318
- Published
- 2020
- Chapters available
- 1