by Alain Mabanckou · Seuil · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020849531
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«Verre Cassé» is the novel by Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou, published by Seuil in paperback (248 pages, in French).
Verre Cassé, a former teacher and regular at the Congolese bar Le Crédit a voyagé, becomes the chronicler of the establishment's habitués: a gallery of marginal characters, mythomaniacs and picturesque destinies. Between satire and farce, the novel portrays with humor an unexpected Africa and the contradictions of life in the Congo.
In 2005, the novel won the RFO Book Prize, the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Ouest-France/Étonnants Voyageurs Prize.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary African literature, with a taste for social satire and humor.
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, including Broken Glass (2005) and the Prix Renaudot-winning Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006). He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language, and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as "the Samuel Beckett of Africa".
