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Broken glass

The history of 'Credit Gone Away', 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 himse.

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  • "Verre cassé"@it
  • "Verre Cassé"@he

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  • "A novel by the Congolese author."
  • ""Disgraced school-teacher turned public writer, Broken Glass fails abysmally to stay out of trouble, as one drinker after another wants to make sure that their portrayal in the notebook, (not so golden this one), will reflect their dynamic, ebullient personality. Like the photographer whose subjects always want to smile for him, Broken Glass is sickened by this false show of success and drowns his sorrows in red wine and riffs on the literature of Africa and the West. Chock-full of life and death, Broken Glass is a mocking satire on the dangers of artistic integrity."--Book jacket of Serpent's Tail edition."
  • "The history of 'Credit Gone Away', 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 himse."@en
  • "Verre Cassé est le patriarche d'une bande de joyeux marginaux qui ont l'habitude de se retrouver dans un bar congolais. Ivrogne et désabusé, il raconte les aventures souvent cocasses de ces personnages truculents et donne à voir un portrait de l'Afrique contemporaine."
  • "Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broken Glass has been elected to record their stories for posterity. But Broken Glass fails spectacularly at staying out of trouble as one denizen after another wants to rewrite history in an attempt at making sure his portrayal will properly reflect their exciting and dynamic lives. Despondent over this apparent triumph of self-delusion over self-awareness, Broken Glass drowns his"@en

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  • "Congolese (Brazzaville) fiction (French)"
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Congolese (Democratic Republic) fiction (French)"@en

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  • "Verre cassé : roman"
  • "Kielonek"@pl
  • "Kielonek"
  • "Kos shevurah"
  • "Verre cassé"
  • "Slut på kritan"
  • "Slut på kritan"@sv
  • "Verre Cassé : roman"
  • "Verre Cassé"
  • "Broken glass"
  • "Broken glass"@en
  • "Verre cassé roman"
  • "כוס שבורה"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Pezzi di vetro"@it
  • "Pezzi di vetro"
  • "Kos shevura"
  • "Vaso roto"
  • "Vaso roto"@es

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