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WAITING FOR AN ANGEL marks the debut of one of Africa's most talented and promising new writers. Lomba is a young journalist living under military regime in Lagos, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the novel he is writing. But his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a man she doesn't love, and his neighbours are planning a demo which is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand. He must write the truth about this reign of terror... WAITING FOR AN ANGEL captures the despair, the frenzy and the stubborn hope of a generation daring to speak out against one of the world's most oppressive regimes. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The story's link is Lomba, a promising young journalist writing for a local Lagos newspaper. In the first story we find hm in prison as a political prisoner when the warden taps Lomba to help him write love poetry to a woman he is interested in. And then, like in a dot-to-dot exercise, the author introduces us to other characters— students, neighbors, and local characters—all with some connection to Lomba, all living lives as normal as they can in the chaos and uncertainly of the rapidly changing political atmosphere of the time. The author eventually brings the story back to Lomba, of course. The format of the novel is inextricably linked to the story, both in connecting Lomba to others (making him kind of an everyman) and for illustrating the fragmentation of their world (not sure that latter bit conveys accurately what I want to say).
Through a very different story and cast of characters, this book reminds me a bit of Tahar Ben Jelloun's This Blinding Absence of Light in that it illustrates the resilience of the human spirit in the bleakest of times—a powerful message of hope. ( )