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Souls Forgotten (Paperback)
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One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and
stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and
things are no longer as they used to be. Things must not be normal
all the time, otherwise life would not be life." When Emmanuel
Kwanga gets a University scholarship, he travels from the lake and
hills of Abehema to the Great City. Everyone in the village has
invested in him their hopes for the good life. When the life
they've imagined is cut short by the University guillotine,
Emmanuel Kwanga must struggle to make sense of what the good life
means - for himself and for Abehema - in a world where things are
no longer as they used to be. This novel is about coming of age and
coming to terms in Mimboland. It is also about the fragility of
life and the strength of the human spirit. The filth and screaming
splendor of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village
are juxtaposed, as the tension and conviviality between tradition
and modernity are lived and explored. Roads and drivers, dreams and
public transport link different geographies. Faltering along or
speeding away, these spaces of risk, frustration and solidarity are
filled with popular songs as vehicles for understanding events and
relationships. With every crossing of the Pont de Maturite the
story flows, and its mysteries surge. In this novel, the worlds of
the living and the dead intermingle, as do the natural and the
supernatural, the visible and the invisible.
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