TY - BOOK ID - 77893055 TI - Blue White Red : A Novel AU - Mabanckou, Alain AU - Dundy, Alison PY - 2013 SN - 0253007941 1299106013 9780253007940 9781299106017 9780253007919 0253007917 PB - Bloomington, Ind. ; Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Africans KW - Ethnology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893055 AB - This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deport ER -