Newham, London. Ten-year-old Flambeau waits for his young mother to arrive from the Congo, along the same dangerous route that the human traffickers smuggled him. Homesick and pining for love, he sees a glimpse of life in Knight, a fellow Congolese. Knight, a sapeur - dressed to the nines and dressed to kill - is a gangster who lives for two purposes: to be noticed, and to dance away the immigrants' troubles on a Friday night at Le Pitch, Broadwater Farm. And, who knows, he might just be able to use his contacts to find Flambeau's mother, Bijou. Knight has a girlfriend, Eleanor: a pale Scottish beauty whose love for him is total, but who can never be accepted into the world of Le Pitch. She becomes Flambeau's confidante, and he her mentor in the art of the Rhumba - the dance that will help her steal her lover's heart.
'Epic, cinematic, passionate and poetic, politically astute, yet tender and moving, Rhumba proves Elaine Proctor to be a great novelist' Mike Leigh.
Title: Rhumba
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Elaine Proctor
ISBN 13: 9781780875118
ISBN 10: 1780875118
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Imprint: Quercus Publishing Plc
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.92
(DC23)
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm