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Will,the Passenger Delaying Flight...

Author :  Barbara Adair (Ed)

Product Details

Country
South Africa
Publisher
Modjaji Books, South Africa
ISBN 9781928215943
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info 162p. ; 198x129mm.
Product Weight 250 gms.
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A man is travelling to Africa from Europe. And yet it is also about waiting – waiting for Africa. Volker, a German, leaves his home in Frankfurt for Windhoek. He leaves a lover, he is leaving for a long time, and he does not have a return ticket. He does not know anything about Africa, to him it is one country, not a continent, neither does he really know where he is going to; he just knows that he wants to leave Europe. Lufthansa, the airline that carries him stops at Charles de Gaulle airport and here he waits and waits and waits. And in the airport he observes and describes and thinks. The text is a stream of consciousness, Volker’s thoughts. Interspersed with this are stories of people he encounters in the airport; a murderer, a terrorist, a person with dwarfism, a trans woman, a porn star, a terrorist, a child trafficker, a paedophile. All are connected, with each other, with Volker and with us, the readers. Adair’s novel is innovative in form, self-conscious and self-critical; it challenges conventional Western assumptions that all good novels have a clear story line, a good plot and fully rounded characters.

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