Little Pa

A Short Story

De: Hemley Boum

Narrado por: Tony Tambi

Cameroonian author Hemley Boum brings us "Little Pa", a potent story of a boy who grows into a man battling with identity.

Zacharias is his maternal grandfather’s namesake, though he has never met said grandfather or any other extended family members. He represses questions he has as a way of trying to protect himself and his mother, Dorothée, who is prone to bouts of depression. But he cannot ignore his reality forever and in adolescence, Zacharias begins to commit small acts of rebellion leading to a final act that goes horribly wrong and leads him to exile and a new life where he promises himself never to look back.

Translated from French by one of Africa’s new leading voices in writing and translation, Edwige-Renée Dro.

©2022 Hemley Boum (P)2022 Audible Originals LLC

Emotion pure

A hollow life painted in vivid detail. Real emotion and connection to a person who lacked this.

Heartbreakingly Beautiful

This short story is one you won’t want to miss, a tale of mental health, and a boy who just wants to save his lost mother.

A must hear!

This story was told unabashedly from a child's perspective. He bestowed unconditional love in it's rarest form.

Find my eyes welling with tears throughout this story

This is a simple and incredibly moving story. I hesitate to say more about it because I think part of its beauty is in the listening and letting it take you to various landscapes and vistas, each more engrossing than the last. The narrator’s voice gives the story a poignancy that at first I did not appreciate. There’s so much that is left to the imagination, which makes this a devastating story as well. Glad I took it on.

I liked the story and the real struggle pi went threw

The short story was good and told a real story about pi that was a smart young boy and African I liked that he did his school work.

Sad sad story.

The story flowed nicely. It is just sad. I am looking for escapism to be honest.

It drew me end

I enjoyed this story, although h wished it was longer.

This was more like a prelude I would love to hear/ read part 2z

This was meant to be an entire book

This has too many dimensions to be a short story. I hope this gets turned into a full book. I would love to read it.

Just what I needed to hear

This is the second time in a matter of weeks that Audible has popped just what I needed to hear on my home page, and free! I saw myself in Little Pa and ached for him and for his mother. The story is languid and attentive. The ending confused me somewhat but I very much enjoyed this story.

Delicate and heartbreaking

I want to read more by this author. The understated narration was the perfect way to tell the story. You could hear the little boy’s hesitation and confusion as he tries to piece together why he and his mother are different from other people he knows.