The Pedestrian
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1643623117
ISBN-13
9781643623115
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Imprint
Nightboat Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 20th, 2026
Print length
96 Pages
Product Classification:
Poetry
Ksh 2,500.00
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A poet’s novel, a body, a house, haunting and haunted by an unnamed horror. Emerging from the uncanny space of lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes require a more defective detective. To understand the source of this text’s trauma, the reader must become an emotional detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through obfuscation, suggestion, and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. The pedestrian operates like an inverted pastoral, turning kitchens into underworlds, sidewalks into sacred sites—it “listens” as much as it speaks, responding to forces beyond itself.
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