Fragments from the Leper Colony

Fragments from the Leper Colony is a novel of consciousness told through 131 interlocking fragments.

Its unnamed narrator inhabits the Colony: a world of unemployment, meaningless labour, rented rooms, political meetings, television schedules, computer courses, cultural debris and relationships that repeatedly fail to provide connection. The Colony is not merely a location. It is a condition entered when time loses its shape, meaningful work disappears and the future contracts into the manag...