Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s.
Tomorrow I\'ll Be Twenty is a humorous and poignant account of an African childhood, drawn from Alain Mabanckou\'s life..
Somehow he must find it.
But most worrying for Michel, the witch doctor has told his mother that he has hidden the key to her womb, and must return it before she can have another child.
While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, the death of the Shah, the scandal of the Boukassa diamonds, Michel struggles with the demands of his twelve year old girlfriend Caroline, who threatens to leave him for a bully in the football team.
Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Loun s dream about the countries where they\'ll land.
His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests.
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s
