The Obituary
by
Gail Scott
Book Details
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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