Beginnings of a Dream
Plunging the reader into a phantasmagoric world where streets are paved with human remains and men are apocalyptically condemned to death by the fire of their loins, these short stories strike a fabulist and magical realism drawn from African traditions and present-day conditions. For all its contemporary relevance, this collection has at its core a dialogue between the living and their ancestors that creates a powerful resonance between the bones of the dead and the echoes of their survivors.
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Beginnings of a Dream
Plunging the reader into a phantasmagoric world where streets are paved with human remains and men are apocalyptically condemned to death by the fire of their loins, these short stories strike a fabulist and magical realism drawn from African traditions and present-day conditions. For all its contemporary relevance, this collection has at its core a dialogue between the living and their ancestors that creates a powerful resonance between the bones of the dead and the echoes of their survivors.
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Beginnings of a Dream

Beginnings of a Dream

by Zachariah Rapola
Beginnings of a Dream

Beginnings of a Dream

by Zachariah Rapola

Overview

Plunging the reader into a phantasmagoric world where streets are paved with human remains and men are apocalyptically condemned to death by the fire of their loins, these short stories strike a fabulist and magical realism drawn from African traditions and present-day conditions. For all its contemporary relevance, this collection has at its core a dialogue between the living and their ancestors that creates a powerful resonance between the bones of the dead and the echoes of their survivors.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781770092105
Publisher: Jacana Media
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Zachariah Rapola is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose short stories have been published in The Boston Review, Discovering Home, and Tribune. He is the author of Stanza on the Edge.

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