Marechera Dambudzo - Black Sunlight - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In this dark and deeply radical novel Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account of a photojournalist's entanglement with a terrorist organisation. In an unnamed totalitarian state the members of Black Sunlight a group of violent anarchists are the only ones fighting for change and justice. As their actions push the country further towards chaos journalist Christian records it all through the lens of his camera. Christian's life so far has been one of immense struggle and alienation. So when he becomes tangled in the Black Sunlight uprising he is determined to remain a bystander and nothing more; to capture their actions without praise or condemnation. In evocative flashes of sex violence war and myth Christian's story explodes in a labyrinthine plot told through a chaotic stream - of - consciousness that mirrors the nation's crumbling climate. Black Sunlight is a piercing insight into the darkness of the human psyche and a raw examination of a nation in battle against itself where everything political turns deeply personal. Complex challenging and uniquely potent. Guardian A writer in constant quest for his real self. Wole Soyinka.
Title: Black Sunlight
Author(s): Marechera Dambudzo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781035906161
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 9/10/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features