"This transcendent and powerful testament to the indomitable human
spirit is not to be missed." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Book
1 in the City of Kings trilogy As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie,
lies in a coma at Mater Dei Hospital after having suffered through
a long illness, her family and friends struggle to come to terms
with her impending death. This is the story of Genie, who has gifts
that transcend time and space. It is also the story of her
forebears - Baines Tikiti, who, because of his wanderlust, changed
his name and ended up walking into the Indian Ocean; his son,
Livingstone Stanley Tikiti, who, during the war, took as his nom de
guerre Golide Gumede and who became obsessed with flight; and
Golide's wife, Elizabeth Nyoni, a country-and-western singer
self-styled after Dolly Parton, blonde wig and all. With the
lightest of touches, and with an overlay of magical-realist beauty,
this novel sketches, through the lives of a few families and the
fate of a single patch of ground, decades of national history (a
country in Southern Africa that is never named) - from colonial
occupation through the freedom struggle, to the devastation wrought
by the sojas, the HIV virus, and The Man Himself. At turns
mysterious and magical, but always honest, The Theory of Flight
explores the many ways we lose those we love before they die.
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