The Pearl on the Horizon - Nyongesa, Andrew
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The Pearl on the Horizon is a moving story about the devastating effects of materialism which sends a rich ethical message in line with religious teachings. Madame Victorine Mahfouz grows up in a materialistic family and looks at everything through these lenses. On the other hand, Eugene and Fresha believe in high achievements in education and subsequent roses. Confronted with unemployment and tough socio-economic demands, Madame Victorine mocks the two and even threatens to destroy their engagement. Underlying the plot is a classic romantic love relationship between Eugene and Fresha, on the…mehr

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The Pearl on the Horizon is a moving story about the devastating effects of materialism which sends a rich ethical message in line with religious teachings. Madame Victorine Mahfouz grows up in a materialistic family and looks at everything through these lenses. On the other hand, Eugene and Fresha believe in high achievements in education and subsequent roses. Confronted with unemployment and tough socio-economic demands, Madame Victorine mocks the two and even threatens to destroy their engagement. Underlying the plot is a classic romantic love relationship between Eugene and Fresha, on the one hand, and Madame Victorine's illicit amorous scandals, on the other. In these well-written passages with techniques enriched by letters, songs, poems and narration, the reader will appreciate the author's juxtaposition of success and survival. The Pearl on the Horizon draws a line between survival and success, crowns the latter prominence and discredits the former. The writer suggests that success is slow but bears enduring results. Survival, on the other hand, is quick but can lead to ruin.
Autorenporträt
Andrew Nyongesa is currently a lecturer at Murang'a University of Technology (Kenya) and a writer of fiction. Some of his published works include The Endless Battle (2016), and The Water Cycle (2018). He worked with John Mugubi in compiling and editing Many in One and Other Stories (2019), The Armageddon and Other Stories (2020), and Say My Name and Other Stories from Home and Away (2021) all of which are based on postcolonialism and Eco-criticism. His scholarly works include Cultural Fixity and Hybridity: Strategies of Resistance in SafiAbdi's Fiction; Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture; Conversation with the "Other": style and Pathology in Selected African Novels published in the Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies; Humanity and Mother Nature: Ecological Reading of Ole Kulet's Blossoms of the Savannah in Kenya Studies Review; Wagar and Motley 'Archaic' Vestiges:a Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somalia Fiction in Journal of Literary Studies. His latest article is The Centre and Pathology: Postmodernist Reading of Madness in the Oppressor in Contemporary Fiction in Cogent Arts and Humanities. His writing and research interests are postcolonialism, speculative fiction, stream-of-consciousness literature, Black Aesthetics and Eco-criticism.