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  Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel

  by Emmanuel Boundze?ki Dongala

  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,... (more)