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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