Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
|
Buy Now
The World Doesn't Require You (Paperback)
Loot Price: R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
|
|
The World Doesn't Require You (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
Loot Price R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
Welcome to Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of the
country's only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth
century, its residents thump out a beat that echoes its violent
founding. Among them - spanning decades, perspectives, and species
- are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be
God's last son; Tyrone, a ruthless Ph.D student channelling the
insurrections of his forebears through a childhood game; Jim, a
Robot Personal Helper desperate to escape the master who enslaves
him; and James-my-man, who travels the path of the Underground
Railroad year after year. Not to forget the water women who lure
men to their watery graves and the screecher birds who cry out for
sacrificial flesh... Contemporary and essential, The World Doesn't
Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion
Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes
of race, violence, and love - all told with sly humour and a dash
of magical realism. PRAISE FOR THE WORLD DOESN'T REQUIRE YOU: 'I
wandered into Cross River, not knowing a damn thing. Now I'm
shuddering, gasping in wonder, reading stories over and over, and
doing just about anything so that I never leave' MARLON JAMES 'A
musical and visceral explosion. The book makes you laugh even as it
stabs. The truth told in a completely new way' NANA KWAME
ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Flat-out unputdownable' LAURA VAN DEN BERG 'Rion
Amilcar Scott doesn't hold back or tiptoe around issues about race.
He's the most courageous writer I know; and this collection is an
excellent example and significant achievement. He's now made his
mark as a force to reckon with' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN 'Surreal,
intertextual, and darkly comical ... With breathtaking cruelty and
devastating humor, Scott adduces the whole world in one community'
NAFISSA THOMPSON-SPIRES
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.