Kaya days / Carl de Souza ; translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2021]Description: 117 pages ; 18 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781949641196
- 1949641198
- Jours Kaya. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | SOUZA, CARL | Available | 33111010564645 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Nearly impossible to put down." --NPR
In 1999, the Mauritian musician Joseph Réginald Topize, better known as Kaya, was arrested for smoking weed while performing at a concert. Following his death in police custody just days later, the island nation surged with violence in a long-overdue demand for justice from the marginalized populations of the African island off the coast of Madagascar.
In Kaya Days, the spirit of the island and its many people--Hindu, Muslim, Chinese, Franco-Mauritian, and Creole--is distilled into a young woman's daylong search through the uproar for her younger brother, who has gone missing. Amid burning cars and buildings, opportunists and revolutionaries, Santee rises into another world, a furious, brilliant one. An exhilarating journey into night from a small Hindu village to the big city, and from innocence into womanhood, Carl de Souza's surreal English-language debut, artfully translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, is an explosion of politics and poetry, a humid dream-world of revolutionary fervor where seemingly anything--everything--is possible.
Originally published as Les Jours Kaya.
"Set in Mauritius during the uprising following the death of the Mauritian musician Kaya, Kaya Days tells the story of a young woman's daylong search for her younger brother who has gone missing"-- Provided by publisher.