Hell, he’ll be frozen stiff!
Michael Hofmann: Michel the Giant, 7 April 2022
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, translated by James Kirkup.
Penguin, 328 pp., £9.99, February,978 0 241 55453 1 Show More
by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, translated by James Kirkup.
Penguin, 328 pp., £9.99, February,
“... Do people ever know their true reason for embarking on a long journey?’ Tété-Michel Kpomassie asks, just as he is setting out for home (où ça?) at the end of a year and a half in the Greenland of his dreams. He was 16 when he first left Togo for Europe; 24 when he reached Greenland, by way of Ghana, Senegal, France, Germany and the colonial power, Denmark; 38 when he wrote those words; 40 when they were published by Flammarion ... ”
