The Villain's Dance

Full of wit and music, The Villain's Dance shows Booker-Prize longlisted author Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang. A journey into the chaotic heart of the Zaire-Angola borderlands of the 1990s, where a rollicking cast of characters see their fortunes rise and fall. Things are drawing to a head, but at the Mambo de la Fête, they still dance the Villain's Dance from dusk till dawn.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1981 and lives today in Austria. His writing - including the International Booker longlisted Tram 83 - responds to political turbulence in his native country and frequently foregrounds its debt to jazz.