Description
In the run-down bars of Brazzaville, a former professor turned alcoholic begins to write his way through the lives of the regulars who gather there—each drink, argument, and confession cracking open a larger portrait of a country in transition. With a notebook in hand, he chronicles Credit Gone West and the colorful denizens of the Trois-Cents neighborhood, turning everyday rituals into a riotous, intimate chronicle of survival. Blending humor with ache, the novel explores memory, dignity, and the fractures left behind by economic and social change, where community is both refuge and battleground. In Alain Mabanckou’s signature voice—sharp, exuberant, and deeply humane—language itself becomes a kind of broken glass: dazzling, dangerous, and impossible to look away from.
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paperback
Counterpoint
Published Jan 1, 2010
165 pages
ISBN: 9781593762735
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First Published
2010
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
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