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Broken Glass
Alain Mabanckou
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Description for Broken Glass
Paperback. Broken Glass is a Congolese riff on European classics from the most notable Francophone African writer of his generation. Translator(s): Stevenson, Helen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 The history of Credit Gone West, a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been commissioned by its owner to set down an account of the characters who frequent it. Broken Glass himself is a disgraced alcoholic school teacher with a love of French language and literature which he has largely failed to communicate to his pupils but which he displays in the pages of his notebook. The notebook is also a farewell to the bar and to his fellow drinkers. After ... Read more
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 The history of Credit Gone West, a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been commissioned by its owner to set down an account of the characters who frequent it. Broken Glass himself is a disgraced alcoholic school teacher with a love of French language and literature which he has largely failed to communicate to his pupils but which he displays in the pages of his notebook. The notebook is also a farewell to the bar and to his fellow drinkers. After ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
155g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846688157
SKU
V9781846688157
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About Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in the Congo. He currently lives in California, where he teaches French literature at UCLA. One of Africa's major writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the prestigious Prix Renaudot for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French journal Lire as one of ... Read more
Reviews for Broken Glass
A dizzying combination of erudition, bawdy humour and linguistic effervescence
Melissa McClements
Financial Times
Broken Glass is a comic romp that releases Mabanckou's sense of humour... Although its cultural and intertextual musings could fuel innumerable doctorates, the real meat of Broken Glass is its comic brio, and Mabanckou's jokes work the whole spectrum of humour
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Melissa McClements
Financial Times
Broken Glass is a comic romp that releases Mabanckou's sense of humour... Although its cultural and intertextual musings could fuel innumerable doctorates, the real meat of Broken Glass is its comic brio, and Mabanckou's jokes work the whole spectrum of humour
Tibor ... Read more