“ Broken Glass is a colorful, exuberant, talkative, thunderous work, with unrestrained humor. "
Bernard Pivot, Le Journal du dimanche
Verre Cassé is a regular customer of Credit a Voyage , a very filthy Congolese bar. One day, the stubborn Snail, the boss, offers to put on paper the heroic-comic prowess of the regulars ... In a makeshift notebook, under the disillusioned pen of this former drunk teacher, comes the horrific story of a troop of cripples with fantastic adventures.
Alain Mabanckou is a poet and novelist. In 2015, he was professor of artistic creation at the Collège de France. He is notably the author of Porcupine Memories - Renaudot Prize -, Petit Piment and Le monde est mon langue .