Boldog Észak

Aimé Billion is an outsider who for a long time cannot find his place in the world; he feels a stranger in Africa, in Europe and in his own skin. Yoruba, Vietnamese and French blood mix in his veins, and Africans see him as white while white people see him as African. He spends the first thirty-eight years of his life in Benin, working as an orderly at a French hospital in the country's largest city. Then he moves to faraway Norway, a country that knows well what strangeness is, and looks for happiness among the reserved Norwegians in an unusual love. The book portrays the West African state, its vodun, folk beliefs and remedies, and welfare Norway, but above all it is Aimé's story: a novel of family, travel, growing up and identity.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

434 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Family, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Benin, Norway

First published

2013 by Magvető

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789631431230 (original)