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by Ken Bugul (Author), Julie Huntington (Translator)
Felix Faure Street opens with a gruesome scene, with two incompetent police officers standing before a bloody and dismembered body found strewn across the sidewalk in a working-class neighborhood in Dakar, Senegal. At the onset of the investigation, the body of the murdered man begins to tell the story of the events leading up to his death, but no one is listening to him. Life on Felix Faure Street goes on, just as it does every day. As the mystery unfolds, community members get involved in the investigation. Guided by supernatural elements that manifest in the form of four elusive veiled figures, they will come face to face with a brutal truth about the horrifically mutilated man and those he has abused.
Author Biography
Ken Bugul is the pen name of Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. In the Wolof language, her pen name means "one who is unwanted." Since the 1982 publication of her first book, Le baobab fou (The Abandoned Baobab), a semiautobiographical work in which she confronts her own experiences with immigration, racism, exploitation, sexuality, and substance abuse, Bugul has published ten more novels, each of which takes on an array of pressing social issues in West Africa and beyond.
Julie Huntington is a college professor and literary translator who lives and works in New York City. She has taught courses in language, literature, film, translation, and pedagogy at campuses in France, Ghana, and the United States. She is the author of Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels.
