The Marvellous Equations of the Dread (eBook)

A Novel in Bass Riddim

Marcia Douglas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
304 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-2787-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The ancestors have awakened. Somebody has called them. The long-dead are stirring. Jah ways are mysterious ways.Is meBob. Bob Marley. Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book, when Bob steps into the street each day, five years have passed. Jah ways are mysterious ways, from Kingstons ghettoes to London, from Haile Selaisses Ethiopian palace and back to Jamaica, Marcia Douglass mythical reworking of three hundred years of violence is a ticket to the deep world of Rasta history. This amazing novelin bass riddimcarries the reader on a voyage all the way to the gates of Zion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: alexia arthurs • Bass • bass riddim • Bob Marley • Caribbean • dancehall • deaf woman • Dread • Dubstep • Ethiopia • Ghosts • Haile Selassie • half way tree • her-story • historical documentary • Historical Novel • Jamaica • Jamaican fiction • jamaican history • Kei Miller • king edward • kingston • Marcus Garvey • Marlon James • marvellous equations • monologues • narrartive • Poetry • publishers weekly • queen nanny • Rasta • ratsafari • Reggae • Revolution • surreal • Vanity Fair • woman-centered • woman writer • Zion
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-2787-1 / 0811227871
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2787-2 / 9780811227872