The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim

The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim

The ancestors have awakened. Somebody has called them. The long-dead are stirring. Jah ways are mysterious ways.
â‚¬Å“Is meâ‚¬â€¢Bob. Bob Marley.â‚¬Â Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book, when Bob steps into the street each day, five years have passed. Jah ways are mysterious ways, from Kingstonâ‚¬s ghettoes to London, from Haile Selaisseâ‚¬s Ethiopian palace and back to Jamaica, Marcia Douglasâ‚¬s mythical reworking of three hundred years of violence is a ticket to the deep world of Rasta history. This amazing novelâ‚¬â€¢in bass riddimâ‚¬â€¢carries the reader on a voyage all the way to the gates of Zion.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811227865
ReleaseDate 2018-07-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811227865

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