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Dr. No (Paperback)
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Dr. No (Paperback)
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Loot Price R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
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An ingenious, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really,
from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist
of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of
mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means
"nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an
expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of
study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the
perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to
break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox
containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a
dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he
thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed
astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries
to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process,
Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond
villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to
the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, "Professor,
think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us
and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's
time we gave nothing back." Dr. No is a caper with teeth, a wildly
mischievous novel from one of our most inventive, provocative, and
productive writers. That it is about nothing isn't to say that it's
not about anything. In fact, it's about villains. Bond villains.
And that's not nothing.
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