The Obituary

Name: The Obituary
Brand: Nightboat Books
SKU: 9781937658038
Price: 2150 KES
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ISBN: 9781937658038

by Gail Scott

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1937658031

ISBN-13 9781937658038

Publisher Nightboat Books

Imprint Nightboat Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 21st, 2012

Print length 220 Pages

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

KSh 2,150.00

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A haunting new novel from the author of My Paris

In order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott’s part-Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever-shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both contemporaneous and ancestral. Her inability to claim a legacy becomes a trajectory of disjunctions where place, language, and race are lived through in the most detailed ways, fostering schisms that challenge what narrative has come to mean under the rubric of the “novel.” Though a mystery, possibly involving murder, The Obituary is less a whodunit than an investigation of who speaks when “one” speaks.

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