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Broken Glass
Broken Glass | Alain Mabanckou
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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.
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Broken Glass | Alain Mabanckou
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Mehso-so

I received this as part of a #BookCrossing roundabout and would probably not have discovered it otherwise. It's absurdly comic and fascinating in a way, but I think I missed out on much of the humour because I don't have enough understanding of the cultural context.

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