Memoirs Of A Porcupine

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Outlandish, surreal and compelling, a murderous porcupine tells all: ''For years I was the double of Kibandi . . . He died the day before yesterday, so here is my confession''All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some are benign, others wicked. When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of eleven...