{"product_id":"9781941920046","title":"Tram 83","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An exuberantly dark first novel.\" — \u003ci\u003eNPR's Fresh Air w\/ Terry Gross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Shortlisted for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature**\u003cbr\u003e**Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo friends, one a budding writer home from abroad, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the most notorious nightclub—Tram 83—in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. \u003ci\u003eTram 83 \u003c\/i\u003eplunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**One of Flavorwire's 33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**One of Book Riot's 5 Books to Watch for in September**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiston Mwanza Mujila \u003c\/b\u003e(b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar. \u003ci\u003eTram 83 \u003c\/i\u003eis his award-winning and much raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058849857776,"sku":"9781941920046","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941920046_p0.jpg?v=1769898227","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941920046","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}