by Kossi Efoui · Seagull Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780857428738
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«Shadow of Things to Come» is Kossi Efoui's dystopian novel, published by Seagull Books in paperback (152 pages, in English).
In an unnamed African country, state propaganda empties language of meaning while war devastates everything. A hidden young man waits for mysterious crocodile men and tells his story: his parents were sent to plantation penal colonies, and he grew up under the tutelage of Mama Maize, an elite school, and the bookseller Axis Kemal.
The work belongs to the Africa List collection; it was published in 2021 and translated into English by Chris Turner.
For readers of literary fiction and dystopias interested in the abuse of power and the manipulation of language.
