Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Digging Stars: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A brilliant new novel from the award-winning author of House of Stone.

With admission to The Program, Rosa fulfills her dream to continue her father's research on Bantu geometries and Indigenous astronomies. Yet since his death during her childhood, she has been plagued by anxiety attacks that she dubs The Terrorsand by unresolved questions about her father's life. Who is his mysterious friend Mr. C? Who was her father, really?

Her cohort of talented Fellows includes Shaniqua, her roommate, studying melanin molecules and their capacity to conduct electricity in order to redefine how we think about race and biology; Richard, studying quantum mechanics; Mausi, focusing on Indigenous American scientific thought; and Peralte, a kind of stepbrother whose obsessive gaming has made him a programmer of virtual worldsall of whom will challenge Rosa's notions of ethnicity, identity, the ethics of technology, her adulation of her father, and what it means to be successful in America.

Full of philosophical provocation and gorgeous writing about space, Digging Stars is a brilliantly original reflection on meritocracy and the narrow notions of success that alienate us from the cosmosa gravity-defying novel both about unlimited aspiration and the importance of being grounded.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324035183
• Artikelnr.: 67345698

Autorenporträt

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is the author of the novel House of Stone, the winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the 2019 Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction. Her work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Balcones Fiction Prize. A native of Zimbabwe, she has lived in South Africa and the United States and has taught fiction workshops globally.