{"product_id":"black-bazaar-paperback","title":"Black Bazaar - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eButtologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing him of 'digging a hole in the Dole'. And his drinking buddies at Jips, the Afro-Cuban bar in Les Halles, pour scorn on \u003ci\u003eBlack Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, the journal he keeps to log his sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner shop has a kind word; while at night his dreams are stalked by the cannibal pygmies of Gabon. Then again, Buttologist wears no ordinary uppers. He has \u003ci\u003estyle\u003c\/i\u003e, bags of it (suitcases of crocodile and anaconda Westons, to be precise). He's a dandy from the Bacongo district of Brazzaville - AKA a \u003ci\u003esapeur\u003c\/i\u003e or member of the Society of Ambience-makers and People of Elegance. But is flaunting sartorial chic against tough times enough for Buttologist to cut it in the City of Light?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374039466207,"sku":"9781846687778","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ycdxpGqQJ-9781846687778.webp?v=1789168398","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/black-bazaar-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}