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Bingo's Run : a novel /

Meet Bingo, the greatest drug runner in the slums of Kibera, Nairobi, and maybe the world. A teenage grifter, often mistaken for a younger boy, he faithfully serves Wolf, the drug lord of Kibera. Bingo spends his days throwing rocks at Krazi Hari, the prophet of Kibera's garbage mound, "li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levine, James, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Young men > Conduct of life > Fiction.
Drug traffic > Kenya > Fiction.
Art appreciation > Fiction.
Kibera (Kenya) > Fiction.
Art appreciation.
Drug traffic.
Young men > Conduct of life.
Kenya.
Kenya > Kibera.
Roman.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Bingo Mwolo, the greatest runner in Kibera, Nairobi, and probably the world
  • A day at work
  • Thomas Hunsa, the artist
  • Maasai market
  • Bingo wins the Boss Jonni Run
  • Waiting for Deborah
  • Breakfast at St. Lazarus Church
  • The Boss Jonni Run
  • Bingo's run
  • Bingo reports back to Wolf
  • St. Michael's Orphanage
  • The fight
  • The holy office
  • Father Matthew asks Bingo for a favor
  • Thursday-morning deliveries to Thomas Hunsa, the artist
  • Mrs. Steele arrives
  • The interview
  • Packaged
  • Bingo's dream
  • The legend of Bingo
  • The Livingstone Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Bingo's sale
  • The spider
  • Bingo and Mrs. Steele have dinner
  • Bingo runs to Thomas Hunsa
  • Turn-down service
  • The Kepha
  • The warehouse
  • Bingo Mwolo, art dealer
  • Slo-George visits
  • Breakfast
  • The flood
  • A day by the pool
  • Paper dry
  • Mrs. Steele reviews the Kepha contract
  • Water leak
  • Export license
  • The curator's regrets
  • Bathroom break
  • The Thaatima
  • Representation
  • Spider necklace
  • Nyayo House
  • Charity's tale
  • Bingo's mask
  • Invitation
  • The legend of Bingo
  • Bingo sells
  • Bingo returns to Wolf
  • Exit
  • Siafu the ant
  • Mrs. Steele meets the Masta
  • On to Hastings
  • Bingo's plan
  • What Mrs. Steele knew
  • Partnership
  • Bingo leaves Hastings
  • Lord Nzame, the Master of Everything, disappears
  • Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
  • How the trickster fooled Nzame, the Master of Everything, into going to earth disguised as a spider
  • The security setup
  • Reacquaintance
  • The prayer
  • A prayer's shadow
  • Back to the Livingstone Hotel
  • Family
  • Bingo's run
  • The legend's end
  • The last chapter.