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The silence of the wilting skin / Tlotlo Tsamaase.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Massachusetts : b Pink Narcissus Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First trade paperback editionDescription: 97 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781939056177
  • 1939056179
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead. After the narrator, who is never named is given a warning by her grandmother's dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Her brother is called Brother, her girlfriend is called Girlfriend, cementing the loss of names, language and culture. Struggling to hold onto a fluctuating reality, she prescribes herself insomnia in a desperate attempt to save her family.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction TSAMAASE TLOTLO Available 33111010450563
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In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead. After the narrator, who is never named is given a warning by her grandmother's dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Her brother is called Brother, her girlfriend is called Girlfriend, cementing the loss of names, language and culture. Struggling to hold onto a fluctuating reality, she prescribes herself insomnia in a desperate attempt to save her family.

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