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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 writing the final words, Broken Glass will go down to the River Tchinouka and throw himself into its murky waters, where his lamented mother also drowned.

Broken Glass is a Congolese riff on European classics from the most notable Francophone African writer of his generation.

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 writing the final words, Broken Glass will go down to the River Tchinouka and throw himself into its murky waters, where his lamented mother also drowned.

Broken Glass is a Congolese riff on European classics from the most notable Francophone African writer of his generation.

Über den Autor
Alain Mabanckou's seven previous novels, including African Psycho, are all published by Serpent's Tail. Mabanckou teaches at UCLA, is a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and was awarded the Académie Française's Grand Prix de littérature. Black Moses was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781846688157
ISBN-10: 1846688159
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mabanckou, Alain
Übersetzung: Stevenson, Helen
Hersteller: Profile Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 206 x 131 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Alain Mabanckou
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.2011
Gewicht: 0,151 kg
Artikel-ID: 126916947

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