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Indlæser... Descent into night (2013)af Edem Awumey
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Ito Baraka is a writer who remembers his part in a failed African revolution. He is haunted by the violent events and torture he experienced that he believes influenced the bad choices he made later. Now in Quebec he wants to tell the real story but he's limited by alcoholism and illness. It wasn't an easy story to read or follow. It's dark, explicit, brutal, yet literary although the style can mask the meaning in places. Powerful. ( )
This brilliant and devastating novel from Awumey (who won the Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire for Port Melo, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt for Les pieds sales) follows Ito Baraka, an accomplished, dying, alcoholic author, as he writes one last book. Awumey’s text flawlessly intertwines Ito’s wrestling with his leukemia-stricken body with his attempt to tell the story of his rebellious youth in Togo, which culminated in his imprisonment after he was found at the scene of an anti-government riot. Little by little, as Baraka travels by train from Quebec City to Ottawa and then to his home in Hull, Quebec, he works on a potentially autobiographical story about a student of literature and philosophy in the 1980s, writing in the three great loves of Ito’s life: his prison mate, Koli Lem, a blind man who gives him hope; Santou, the mother of his child; and Kimi Blue, the drug-addicted woman from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg reserve who loves him as he tries to drown his survivor’s guilt at the end of his alcohol-soaked life. Kimi’s story contains parallels to the ravages of colonialism, leading Ito to muse, “That’s how life goes on back home, as in many other times and places. One lives in those rare spaces spared by the bullets.” Artfully constructed, peppered with evocative phrasing, and skillfully translated, this beautiful volume is upsetting, poignant, and at times harrowing. Hæderspriser
"Ito Baraka is going to die. In Gatineau, far from the sun, in a dark, shabby flat he shares with his Native girlfriend, Kimi. But before he can die, he has a book to finish, in which he recounts events in a country where the suns burns, burns the skin, burns the brain, burns the retina of those forced to look at it without blinking. A country where another sun blazes: a dictator in the grips of fear. Is magic not the most dangerous form of subversion? Ito makes the acquaintance of blind Koli Lem. In the middle of the blackest night, in the words they share, in their very flesh, they become each other's sole source of light."-- No library descriptions found. |
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