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From the award-winning writer of The Reactive, Triangulum is an
ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers
a period of over 40 years in South Africa's recent past and near
future -- starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland
system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of the 2010s,
and on to the looming, large-scale ecological disasters of the
2040s. In 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a
mysterious package containing a memoir and a set of digital
recordings from an unnamed woman who claims the world will end in
ten years. Assigned to the case, Dr. Naomi Buthelezi, a retired
professor and science-fiction writer, is hired to investigate the
veracity of the materials, and whether or not the woman's claim to
have heard from a "force more powerful than humankind" is genuine.
Thus begins Triangulum, a found manuscript composed of the
mysterious woman's memoir and her recordings. Haunted by visions of
a mysterious machine, the narrator is a seemingly adrift
17-year-old girl, whose father never recovered from the shock of
losing his wife. She struggles to navigate school, sexual
experimentation, and friendship across racial barriers in
post-Apartheid South Africa. With extraordinary aplomb and
breathtaking prose, Ntshanga has crafted an inventive and marvelous
novel.
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