GAM WRIT ERS

183 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1300; ISBN 1-4120-6389-2; US$16.61, C$19.10, EUR12.95, £8.58

An authentic and grasping story, with sly humour, of African immigrants in Paris facing a seemingly irreconcilable culture clash laden with racism and self destructiveness. This is the pulsating underbelly of Paris that tourists never experience.

About the Book

Sainy, a young Gambian, leaves the Gambia for Paris. Like most young Africans he arrives with high hopes for a better life. Confronted by a minefield of immigration restrictions with which he struggles vainly, he accepts an easy way in by marrying a Gambian-born divorcée and becoming the step-father of the woman's young son.

As the months pass, Sainy learns new facts about the Africans living in France. He sees how their home-grown values of culture and community and morality adapt in their new culture, for better or worse.

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