Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou

Author:Alain Mabanckou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2010-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

my wanderings brought me at the stroke of five in the morning to Credit Gone West, I was still haunted by the image of Alice’s thin, bandy legs, and of her prehistoric shack, and then I recalled the scene with me picking up the shit with my bare hands instead of using the end of a stick, so that when I got here at five in the morning I still stank of shit, and I dozed for a while on a stool at the bar and was woken up by the smell of coffee Dengaki had made for me, he said it was from the boss, and I glanced upstairs and there was still a light on in the Stubborn Snail’s room, and I accepted the coffee, though they don’t serve coffee here, the boss must have made it himself upstairs and had it sent down, I started on a bottle of red, it was the beginning of a new day, but a day unlike any other, I said to myself

it’s around one or two in the afternoon when I notice that never-ending pain in the neck, the Printer, is back at Credit Gone West, I don’t know why I call him a pain in the neck, since up till now he’d made a fairly favorable impression, but only fools never change their minds, so anyway, the Printer had finished his long walk over on the Côte Sauvage and was happy as anything, seemed so excited you’d think they’d just elected him president of Senegal, I’ve never seen him on such good form, so what’s going on, ah, now I see, that’s what it was, now I see why he’s in such a good mood, I understand now, it’s because he’s got hold of a copy of Paris Match and he’s proud of it, he’s showing off, he’s ecstatic, and he’s trying to explain to everyone else about these two French artists who are having a hard time because they’re a famous couple, it seems, and he says it’s there in black-and-white in the magazine, he tells us how these two artists are being pestered by the kind of people who hide out in the shrubbery with their cameras and hope to catch a glimpse of the tits and asses of famous divas, and some people are listening to the Printer, some people are actually listening, as you might listen to the guru who’s having sex with the wife of the Pampers guy, and since there’s no stopping him once he’s started he’s now telling everyone yet again about his French experience, how he “did” France, and how white Céline was the author of his decline, his Dark Empire, he’s not mad, he tells them, far from it, but Céline actually slept with his Caribbean son, he tells them all about that, and people look at him pityingly, and one guy actually tells him straight out he should have married an African woman in France, not a white woman, and

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