Broken Glass
A man sits in a bar, ruminating on his own failures and conversing with an ensemble of memorable characters that pass in and out of the same space. It's archetypal stuff, but Mabanckou transforms it into a work that intimately inhabits its narrator's mind even as it makes a host of bold literary allusions, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Eugène Ionesco. A new introduction to this edition by Uzodinma Iweala offers varied and nuanced insights into the novel's themes as well as the initial reception it received when it first appeared in translation. -Words Without BordersIn Republic of the Congo, in the town of Trois-Cents, in a bar called Credit G…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Iweala, Uzodinma (Solist) / Stevenson, Helen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59376-307-7
- EAN: 9781593763077
- Produktnummer: 26889793
- Verlag: Soft Skull Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.5 cm 204 g
- Gewicht: 204
Über den Autor
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic. A French citizen born in Republic of the Congo, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature and creative writing at UCLA. His books include African Psycho, Letter to Jimmy, Black Bazaar, Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty, The Lights of Pointe-Noire, and Black Moses. Mabanckou has twice been a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, in 2015 and 2017.
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