I’m Carlos Battaglini and I left everything to become a writer. Here you will find posts about my curious life in Liberia and other African countries. It is also where I immerse myself in the burning light of African literature through brutally honest book reviews. Welcome to your home and thanks for joining me on this adventure.
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I can’t help it. I am reading an interesting novel about a violinist who loses…
SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way…
I DON’T REMEMBER VERY WELL WHERE I WAS COMING FROM, but walking on UN Drive…
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CONSISTENT WITH THE IDEA THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS who usually have dinner at night,…
THE FOOD TAKES A WHILE TO COME. The food sometimes takes a while to come…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
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MONIQUE, THE WOMAN WHO HATED (AND LOVED) GUINEA CONAKRY, had allowed another truce with this country on disclosing to me, “if you go to Conakry, go to the islands: an authentic oasis”.…
They say that nobody ever saw that Spanish woman who worked for the embassy again. They say that when the war broke out she chose to stay in Monrovia. They say that…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a…
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DID CONAKRY EXIST? The time had come to tour the capital city of Guinea Conakry. The city, which on naming it provoked sighs and rolling of the eyes among the people I…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories on different subjects of everyday African and Liberian reality, many of which can be extrapolated to the…
