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The Hospital (Paperback): Ahmed Bouanani The Hospital (Paperback)
Ahmed Bouanani; Translated by Lara Vergnaud; Introduction by Anna Della Subin
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive..." So begins Ahmed Bouanani's arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouanani's own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming the lives of a motley cast of inmates one by one; childhood memories and fantasies of resurrection flash in and out of the narrator's consciousness as the hospital transforms before his eyes into an eerie, metaphorical space. Somewhere along the way, the hospital's iron gate disappears. Like Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl, the works of Franz Kafka-or perhaps like Mann's The Magic Mountain thrown into a meat-grinder-The Hospital is a nosedive into the realms of the imagination, in which a journey to nowhere in particular leads to the most shocking places.

Laziness in the Fertile Valley (Paperback): Albert Cossery Laziness in the Fertile Valley (Paperback)
Albert Cossery; Translated by William Goyen; Foreword by Henry Miller; Afterword by Anna Della Subin
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery's biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle - slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another savagely defends the household from women. Serag, the youngest, is the only member of the family interested in getting a job. But even he - try as he might - has a hard time resisting the call of laziness.

Accidental Gods - On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Paperback): Anna Della Subin Accidental Gods - On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Paperback)
Anna Della Subin
R342 R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Save R29 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists, militants, mystics and explorers. From the conquistadors setting foot in the New World to Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, elevated by a National Geographic article from emperor to messiah for the Rastafari faith, to the unlikely officers hailed as gods during the British Raj, this endlessly curious and revelatory account chronicles an impulse towards deification that persists even in a secular age, as show of defiance or assertion of power. In her bravura final part, Subin traces the colonial desire for divinity through to the creation of 'race' and the white power movement today, and argues that it is time we rid ourselves of the white gods among us.

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