I Will Be Twenty Years Old Tomorrow

Michel is ten years old. He lives in Congo in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts in the market and his father works at Victory Palace Hotel. Michel talks with his best friend Lounès about the distant countries on the route of the planes soaring in the sky. He's trying to keep his girlfriend, Caroline, away from Mabélé, the star of the football team. He is worried about the overthrown Shah of Iran, whom he recognizes from the world bulletin he listens to on the radio with his father. He is very confused because of his uncle René. Why is it sometimes so difficult to distinguish between capitalists and Marxists? As if all this were not enough, he has to find the lost key to his mother's belly... Life in a post-revolutionary African country; It comes to life with the habits, warm culture and colorful characters of the people who are devoted to their traditions.

I Will Be Twenty Years Old Tomorrow, which also carries elements from the life of Alain Mabanckou, one of the most talented and productive names of French literature, with a foreword by Nobel Prize in Literature winner JMG Le Clézio. ..

"Like all the children of the world, little Michel must find a place for himself in this spiral of evil, comedy and despair. [...] Only children can erase the shame of the past and fight the threats of the future. Little Michel de JD Salinger It seems that he will have a deep place in our memories like Holden Caulfield [...], the hero of 's novel The Catcher in The Rye."
-JMG Le Clézio-

"Strange, mischievous, life full..."
-Independent-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)


Thin Cover:

Number of Pages: 320

Print Year: 2015


e-Book:

Number of Pages: 266

Print Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Timaş Publications