Praise for The Death of Comrade President:
"At once charming and disquieting. . . . A country's fraught history comes vividly to life through a child's eyes."
—Kirkus Reviews

"The Death of Comrade President is a glorious, funny, surreal novel, set in communist Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s. It is also a profound study of tyranny and individual choice."
—Financial Times

"An imposing tale of colonialism in the turbulent Congo of the 1970s."
—The Independent

"Mabanckou's storytelling thrives in the gulf between the familiar kid troubles that preoccupy the protagonist and the dead-serious political danger. Here's a charming coming-of-age narrative, complete with crushes and innocent secrets kept from parents, artfully corrupted by the Communist propaganda Michel's been fed his whole life."
—Shelf Awareness

"Nicely and quite cleverly turned, The Death of Comrade President is a fine novel, poignant—with a very light touch—but also quite amusing, and vividly evocative."
—M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review

Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo in 1966. An award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, Mabanckou currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He is the author of African Psycho, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar, Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty, The Lights of Pointe-Noire and Black Moses. In 2015, Mabanckou was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.