Dambudzo Marechera Black Sunlight Paperback Book

In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account of a photojournalists entanglement with a terrorist organisation.In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black Sunlight a group of violent anarchists are the only ones fighting for change and justice. As their actions push the country further towards chaos, journalist Christian records it all through the lens of his camera.Christians life so far has been one of immense struggle and alienation. So when he becomes tangled in the Black Sunlight uprising, he is determined to remain a bystander and nothing more to capture their actions without praise or condemnation.In evocative flashes of sex, violence, war, and myth, Christians story explodes in a labyrinthine plot, told through a chaotic streamofconsciousness that mirrors the nations crumbling climate. Black Sunlight is a piercing insight into the darkness of the human psyche and a raw examination of a nation in battle against itself where everything political turns deeply personal.Complex, challenging and uniquely potent. Guardian A writer in constant quest for his real self. Wole Soyinka. | Dambudzo Marechera Black Sunlight Paperback Book