In The Los Angeles Times Reed Johnson reports that For Alain Mabanckou, breakthrough translates well.
Johnson finds:
Johnson finds:
Colloquial and entertaining, Mabanckou's novels fuse an erudite sensibility with the slangy cadences of the African diaspora, yoked to a suitably jaundiced view of life in the modern global village.See also reviews of Mabanckou's African Psycho and Broken Glass at the complete review