39 Berne Street

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<p><b>"My mother says that there are things in life that she can't forgive . . ."</b></p><p>At age 16, Dipita's mother, Mbila, arrived in Switzerland from Cameroon. Trafficked into Europe, she supported herself and her son as a prostitute in Geneva. Dipita, now a young, black, gay man serving a five-year sentence in a Swiss prison, shares their story and his own search for purpose. He intertwines their stories with the life of Uncle Démoney, a former civil servant in Cameroon, who staked everything on sending his sister to Switzerland.</p><p><i>39 Berne Street</i>explores the complex themes of prostitution, immigration, and homosexuality through a fluid and expressive prose that makes it ring true. Originally published in French, it won the Prix du Roman des Romands in 2014.</p><p>Max Lobe's<i>39 Berne Street</i> vividly describes the unforgivable actions visited by family members upon family members in desperate bids for survival and contentment in the midst of Dipita's struggle toward forgiveness and acceptance.</p>

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<p></p><p>Born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1986,<b></b>Max Lobe is a Swiss-Cameroonian novelist, short story writer, and poet. In 2017, he received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize for his novel<i>Confidences</i>about the Cameroon war of independence. He currently lives in Geneva where he founded<i>GenevAfrica</i>, an association that builds bridges between Swiss and African authors.</p><p>Johanna McCalmont is a Northern Irish translator and interpreter based in Brussels where she works from French, German, Dutch, and Italian.</p><p></p>

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