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Michel the Giant:
An African in Greenland
by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

This remarkable book by a truly remarkable man is the wonderful tale of what can happen when you fall out of a tree. With barely enough money to pay for the bus fare on the first leg of his journey from the equator to Greenland, it takes Kpomassie six years to work his passage and reach the land of his dreams. When he does arrive, he realises his native language has no words for freezing or snow.

Translated by James Kirkup
Penguin Classics, 2022
First published in 2010
ISBN 9780241554531