The Bantu Trinity by Max Lobe

From east to west of quadrilingual Switzerland, with incursions into the Bantu South, Mwana delves into the country of his cousins , as he likes to call the inhabitants of this country in the heart of Europe. In this inventive, shimmering and baroque style initiated with his first novel 39, rue de Berne and who revealed him as a promising young author, Max Lobe draws the reader into Mwàna's humanity and his irrepressible taste for laughter as a response to adversity. Financial precariousness of a young graduate without work, his mother's fulminating cancer, discreet but real discrimination against foreigners looking for a job, black sheep which proliferate on xenophobic posters: nothing succeeds in darkening Mwana's lively and deeply joyful spirit for long.

"I think that being able to write a novel that is sensitive, warm, colorful, and moving is a stroke of genius! [...] It's a very beautiful read." On the show La librairie francophone , there was no shortage of praise for La Trinité bantoue . A moving story in which the young Cameroonian now living in Geneva manages to tackle the complex subjects of exclusion, xenophobia, and homophobia with a certain lightness and without self-pity.