Verre Cassé by Alain Mabanckou

My colleague Alain Sissao is visiting Santa Clara, and lent me his copy of Verre Cassé, so I am finally reading it.  Superb writing!  A perfect novel for discussion in a literature class... every chapter full of meanings, deep and surface.  The style itself of course.  And the literary and popular references crammed in... at one point Bobo-Dioulasso potatos are mentioned... huh?

I haven't finished, but could not resist this little extract, a tiny little riff off Hampaté Bâ, and I come across the aphorism so many times that I know some day I won't be able to resist, just like Mabanckou wasn't able to resist...