Description "A man sits in a bar, ruminating on his own failures and conversing with an ensemble of memorable characters that pass in and out of the same space.
A new introduction to this edition by Uzodinma Iweala offers varied and nuanced insights into the novel\'s themes as.
It\'s archetypal stuff, but Mabanckou transforms it into a work that intimately inhabits its narrator\'s mind even as it makes a host of bold literary allusions, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Eug ne Ionesco.
Description "A man sits in a bar, ruminating on his own failures and conversing with an ensemble of memorable characters that pass in and out of the same space