A review by cvbazley
Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila

I don’t want to give this a star rating because maybe something was lost in translation, maybe I didn’t understand something because this book is culturally very different from what I usually read. However, this book is not what I was expecting from the synopsis. I thought it would be more about jazz uniting an international community in the heart of Africa toiling through their universal hardships. Not really. It was more about how this international community gets by on debauchery and perversion. Nearly every page was made sexual, even when it didn’t add to the story.

TLDR: not my thing, but I’m not placing any blame on the author or his vision.