Days Come and Go

Cameroonian novelist, poet, and essayist Hemley Boum regularly publishes articles in Jeune Afrique, Le Point Afrique, and Le Monde Afrique, and speaks at universities and literary festivals. The author – who writes principally in French – is also the author of the books Si d’Aimer (2012) and Les Maquisards (2015). Days Come and Go is a translation of Les Jours Viennent et Passent (2019) into English, by Nchanji Njamnsi. It follows Anna, a matriarch living out her final days in Paris; Abi, Anna’s thoroughly European daughter (at least in her mother’s eyes); and Tina, a teenager who comes under the sway of a militant terrorist faction.