Wilderness of Mirrors
Olufemi Terry
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Exquisitely written and deeply absorbing, this debut from Caine Prize–winning author Olufemi Terry captures the heady abandon of early adulthood in a country still reeling from the lasting effects of racial partition and colonialism.
When his father suggests that he take some time off to visit his cousin, Emil—a young surgeon-in-training—doesn’t ask many questions. For reasons he doesn’t yet understand, he sets aside his studies and moves into his aunt’s house in Stadmutter, a remote multiracial African city. There, he is disquieted by days of unaccustomed aimlessness and by encounters with Bolling, a wealthy foreigner who woos him intellectually and sexually, and Tamsin, a psychology student working to define herself against the fading privilege of her background.
Beneath a veneer of indolence, Stadmutter seethes. Bolling is covertly working with Braeem Shaka, an advocate for reparations, to foment racial tension that imperils the country’s fragile progress. As Shaka becomes a wanted man, Emil and Tamsin grow entangled in his future and that of a country they are both eager to escape.
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anticolonial, privilege, Africa, multicultural, class, estranged family, Sigmund Freud, political, creole, Sierra Leone, diasfora, German, race, femme fatale, multiracial, Stadmutter, political thriller, Ivory Coast, colonialism, small town, Caine Prize, Cote d'Ivoire, contemporary, literary fiction