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Alain Mabanckou

Author of Broken Glass

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Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo-Brazzavile in 1966. He is the author of Broken Glass (Soft Skull 2010), Memoirs of a Porcupine (Soft Skull 2006) and African Psycho (Soft Skull 2007) among others. He currently divides his time between Paris and California, where he teaches French Literature at UCLA. Sara Meli Ansari is a translator and design historian. She holds an undergraduate degree in French studies from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree in the history of culture and design from the Bard Graduate Center. She live with her husband in New York City. — biography from Letter to Jimmy… (more)
Broken Glass 220 copies, 12 reviews
Black Moses 184 copies, 8 reviews
Memoirs of a Porcupine 170 copies, 11 reviews
African Psycho 156 copies, 7 reviews
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty 71 copies, 4 reviews
The Lights of Pointe-Noire 66 copies, 2 reviews
Black Bazar 63 copies, 1 review
Blue White Red 41 copies, 2 reviews
Le sanglot de l'homme noir 31 copies, 1 review
Letter to Jimmy 30 copies
Tram 83 (Foreword, some editions) 195 copies, 15 reviews
Histoire mondiale de la France (Contributor) 116 copies, 1 review
The Granta Book of the African Short Story (Contributor) 88 copies, 2 reviews
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