Copyright © 2010 by Alain Mabanckou
All rights reserved under International and Pan-
American Copyright Conventions.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © Éditions du Seuil, 2010
First published in the United Kingdom by Serpent’s Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd, 3A Exmouth House, Pine Street, London EC1R 0JH, U.K.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-
[Verre cassé. English]
Broken glass / Alain Mabanckou ; translated by Helen Stevenson.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-593-76371-8
1. Alcoholics—Fiction. 2. Bars (Drinking establishments)—Congo (Democratic Republic)—Fiction. 3. Congo (Democratic Republic)—Fiction. 4. Self-perception—Fiction. I. Title.
PQ3989.2.M217V4713 2010
843.914—dc22
2009053525
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