Inongo Vi Makome

Natives Inongo Vi Makome

Marc Notes: Translated from the Spanish.; Having achieved professional success in Barcelona at the expense of family life, best friends Montse and Roser are dissatisfied and sexually frustrated. Over an evening cognac, the two friends hatch a plan to find one of Barcelona's many illegal African immigrants, whom they plan to employ as the object of their sexual desires. Biographical Note: Inongo vi Makome was born in Lobe-Kribi, Cameroon. Educated in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Spain, he has published over ten novels, essay collections, and oral story collections. He lives in Barcelona, where he contributes to several newspapers and devotes himself to writing and storytelling. Michael Ugarte is Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri. His publications include "Madrid 1900: The Capital as Cradle of Culture and Shifting Ground: Spanish Civil War Exile Literature" and a translation of Donato Ndongo's "Shadows of Your Black Memory." He lives in Columbia, MO." Contributor Bio:  Ugarte, Michael Michael Ugarte is Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is the author of Shifting Ground: Spanish Civil War Exile Literature (1989) and Trilogy of Treason: An Intertextual Study of Juan Goytisolo (1982).