num_pages: 336
description: A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearJohnny Mad Dog, age sixteen, is a member of a rebel faction bent on seizing control of war-torn Congo. Laokolé, at the same age, simply wants to finish high school. Together, they narrate a crossing of paths that has explosive results. Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, and acclaimed by such writers as Philip Roth and Chinua Achebe, Emmanuel Dongala's powerful, exuberant, and terrifying new work is a coming-of-age story like no other.
language: English
title: Johnny Mad Dog
titlecomplete: Johnny Mad Dog
genres: Novels, Central Africa, France, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Africa, Contemporary, African Literature, Republic Of The Congo
ratings_count: 380
publisher: Picador