Novel
Le Crime de la rue des notables
Not translated into English
Christiane Akoua Ekué · 1989
Synopsis
A young author has just finished his first novel and is about to entrust it to a publisher, when the manuscript is stolen from him. The novel starts from this theft and borrows several features from the detective novel.
Context
The novel appeared in 1989 in Lomé, from the Nouvelles Éditions africaines, where the author was then working, and it made her known. It is studied, with Étrange héritage by Gad Ami, in the collective work Les femmes dans le processus littéraire au Togo, published by Peter Lang in 1999: D. D. Lawson-Body notes in it the strong share of convention in its making, and G. K. Missodey reads it as a travel narrative. The author then published a narrative, Partir en France, in 1996.
Who it is for
For reading a Togolese novel with the air of an investigation, written by a pioneer of women's writing in Togo.
Prizes and reception
For A. Têko-Agbo, this novel stands apart from the doxa of African women's novels of its time.
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