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TAIL OF THE BLUE BIRD
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| By: |
Nii Ayikwei Parkes |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224085743 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224085748 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
4 June, 2009 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
A story of the mystical heart of Africa, of the clash and clasp between old and new worlds. It tells us that at the heart of modern man there remains the capacity to know the unknowable. |
| Synopsis: |
Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains - possibly human, definitely 'evil' - and the disappearance of a local man brings the intrusion of the city in the form of Kayo; a young forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries. As events in the village become more and more incomprehensible, Kayo and his sidekick, Constable Garba, find that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task in hand. Strange boys wandering in the forest, ghostly music in the night and a flock of birds that come from far away to fill a desolate hut with discarded feathers take the newcomers into a world where, in the unknown, they discover a higher truth that leaves scientific explanations far behind. Tail of the Blue Bird is a story of the clash and clasp between old and new worlds.Lyrically beautiful, at once uncanny and heart-warmingly human, this is a story that tells us that at the heart of modern man there remains the capacity to know the unknowable. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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