ISBN: 9780679742005

With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, This Day and Ag… Altro …

With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, This Day and Age realizes the prophecy told to a newly elected president on the eve of his inauguration. After years of bountiful harmony will come plague and famine, during which a strange man-child with a Bible chained to his wrist and his army of the disenfranchised will gather strength in the most remote reaches of the land.   “Mike Nicol joins the roster . . . of Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and the magical realists of Latin America.”—The New York Times Book Review Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Literary Fict, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Core >1<

ISBN: 9780679742005

With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, This Day and A… Altro …

With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, This Day and Age realizes the prophecy told to a newly elected president on the eve of his inauguration. After years of bountiful harmony will come plague and famine, during which a strange man-child with a Bible chained to his wrist and his army of the disenfranchised will gather strength in the most remote reaches of the land. Mike Nicol joins the roster . . . of Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and the magical realists of Latin America.--The New York Times Book Review Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Literary Fict, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Core >1<

1995, ISBN: 067974200X

[EAN: 9780679742005], Neubuch, [PU: Vintage], FICTION / LITERARY, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -Compared to Faulkner, Grass, Kafka, and Rushdie, after his acclaimed debut The Powe… Altro …

[EAN: 9780679742005], Neubuch, [PU: Vintage], FICTION / LITERARY, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -Compared to Faulkner, Grass, Kafka, and Rushdie, after his acclaimed debut The Powers That Be, Nicol now presents a work of tremendous literary and political resonance. His rise foretold by an oracle, a black messiah in the parched South African veld abandons his plague-ridden village to wander the desert, gathering the poor and disenfranchised--only to incur the wrath of the government. 290 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Books<

ISBN: 9780679742005

Paperback, [PU: Random House USA Inc], Compared to Faulkner, Grass, Kafka, and Rushdie, after his acclaimed debut The Powers That Be, Nicol now presents a work of tremendous literary and … Altro …

Paperback, [PU: Random House USA Inc], Compared to Faulkner, Grass, Kafka, and Rushdie, after his acclaimed debut The Powers That Be, Nicol now presents a work of tremendous literary and political resonance. His rise foretold by an oracle, a black messiah in the parched South African veld abandons his plague-ridden village to wander the desert, gathering the poor and disenfranchised--only to incur the wrath of the government., Contemporary Fiction<