This novel by a professional philosopher explores issues and
mysteries related to consciousness, personal identity, gender,
race, and culture. Its main characters are two sets of conjoined
twins, one set male and white - imprisoned in Canada; the other set
female and black - isolated in a remote southern African village.
Each set of twins is based on documented cases of two heads fused
into one body.
The novel's through line is a love story, beginning with each pair
of twins searching for their anomalous counterparts and ending with
their eventual marriage on the Internet. They never physically
meet, due to their isolated circumstances, so the evolution and
fulfillment of their entire relationship occurs in cyber-space.
Embedded in the plot is continuous conflict. Each personality in
each pair is at odds with the other and this produces even greater
conflict in the union of both pairs of twins. The conclusion is an
optimistic, though tragic, resolution of their conflicts and the
various problems they uncover in philosophy of mind from within
their respective cultural frameworks.
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