Paul Williams

Cokcraco (eBook, ePUB)

A novel in ten cockroaches

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"From da kokroach point of view, humans are irrelvant. Kokroaches no like em. Doan want em. Do not even tink bout em. Doan care for deh conversations. Books we like to eat, not read. We wish humans dead so we can eat em too." - Sizwe Bantu, The Cockroach Whisperer, 2010. Sizwe Bantu is the Greatest African Writer of All Time - according to Timothy Turner, failed academic and lover, who not only lives by Bantu's words but keeps a giant rubber cockroach in homage to the writer of the renowned 'cockroach stories'. Inspired to travel to Bantu country, Timothy takes up a position at a university near the place rumoured to be the reclusive writer's residence in the misty Zululand hills. Instead of drawing closer to his source of inspiration, Timothy is drawn into a Machiavellian world of campus politics and suppressed desire. As Timothy grapples with the mystery surrounding Makaya, the academic he has replaced, and the demands of his students, particularly the attractive Tracey, he must confront his own paranoia, prejudice and insecurity in a search for the shocking truth. Cokcraco is an exhilarating, playful and witty novel that explores writing, identity and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Golden Orb Creative
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781922198099
• Artikelnr.: 39934430

Autorenporträt

Paul Williams's memoir Soldier Blue won Book of the Year in South Africa, 2008 and his novel The Secret of Old Mukiwa won the Zimbabwe International Book Fair award for Young Adults in 2001. His educational readers have been set in schools across Africa and his stories and critical articles have been published in Meanjin, Text, Social Alternatives (Australia), Chicago Quarterly Review (USA), New Writing (UK) and New Contrast (South Africa). He has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin, USA, and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.