Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel Friday, July 31 2009.

• A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the Year   Johnny Mad Dog, age sixteen, is a member of a rebel faction bent on seizing control of war-torn Congo. Laokolé, at the same age, simply wants to finish high school. Together, they narrate a crossing of paths that has explosive results. Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, and acclaimed by such writers as Philip Roth and Chinua Achebe, Emmanuel Dongala's powerful, exuberant, and terrifying new work is a coming-of-age story like no other.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel Thursday, July 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: Emmanuel Boundze?ki Dongala: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• General Giap proclaimed a period of looting that was to last forty-eight hours.