A review by elleneam
Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila

4.0

At first, I found this book disorientating, confusing, struggling to understand the whirlwind of characters and settings, histories all while trying to grab for some kind of plot. But once I'd gotten used to the strange rhythm of the book I began to see how it captures the desperate energy of lives denied so much and confined to so little, of the oppression of work, colonialism, imperialism and greed which forces us to work and fight each other and try to eke out some kind of meaning in our lives in the slither of free time we have left. It captures the contradictions and vying factions post-colonial states living in the wreckage of failed revolutions with vultures swooping in from abroad and picking at the carcass of what is left. A fantastic read.