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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Alain Mabanckou
|title=Memoirs of a Porcupine
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The protagonist of this novel is an ordinary Congolese porcupine until Papa Kibandi performs an ancient ritual involving a hallucinogenic cocktail called ''mayamvumbi'', and transforms him into his son's harmful double. The insecure younger Kibandi becomes more and more embittered as his life goes on, and sends his porcupine to 'eat' anybody he feels the least bit threatened by, a process whereby that person's life essence is sucked out, killing them instantly. Over one hundred victims later and following his master's death at the hands of a vengeful baby, our narrator retires to the hollow of a baobab tree where he writes this confessional.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687675</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julie Myerson
