Comrade PapaBY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes into a coast as yet untouched by colonisation. A century later, a Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam begins to research his family history. When he is

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