Description
"Nearly impossible to put down." --NPR
In 1999, the Mauritian musician Joseph Réginald Topize, better known as Kaya, was arrested for smoking weed while performing at a concert. Following his death in police custody just days later, the island nation surged with violence in a long-overdue demand for justice from the marginalized populations of the African island off the coast of Madagascar.
In Kaya Days, the spirit of the island and its many people--Hindu, Muslim, Chinese, Franco-Mauritian, and Creole--is distilled into a young woman's daylong search through the uproar for her younger brother, who has gone missing. Amid burning cars and buildings, opportunists and revolutionaries, Santee rises into another world, a furious, brilliant one. An exhilarating journey into night from a small Hindu village to the big city, and from innocence into womanhood, Carl de Souza's surreal English-language debut, artfully translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, is an explosion of politics and poetry, a humid dream-world of revolutionary fervor where seemingly anything--everything--is possible.
Author: Carl de Souza
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781949641196
ISBN10: 1949641198
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Political