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African Psycho.(Brief article)(Book review)
No gesture is as simple as that of bringing someone's life to an end," the narrator declares at the start of this disturbing--and disturbingly funny--novel, the first to appear in English by Mabanckou, a French writer of Congolese descent. In an unnamed African country, the impoverished narrator prowls the streets of a blighted neighborhood called He-Who-Drinks-Water-Is-an-Idiot, owing to its abundance of saloons and "drunkenness ...
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