The fellow college students, letus join handstodedicateeouryouth to thedevelopmentof the Motherland and compose amorebrilliantchapterfor the futureof the Motherland.
It weds the oral culture of his unlettered mother (the dedicatee of all his books) to an omnivorous bibliophilia encouraged by his stepfather, a hotel receptionist in Pointe-Noire on the Atlantic coast.