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Gabriela Babnik's novel Dry Season breaks the mold of what we usually expect from a writer from a small, Central European nation. With a global perspective, Babnik takes on the themes of racism, the role of women in modern society and the loneliness of the human condition. Dry Season is a record of an unusual love affair. Anna is a 62-year-old designer from Central Europe and Ismael is a 27-year-old African who was brought up on the street, where he was often the victim of abuse. What unites them is the loneliness of their bodies, a tragic childhood and the dry season, or 'Harmattan', during which neither nature nor love is able to flourish. She soon realizes that the emptiness between them is not really caused by their skin colour and age difference, but predominantly by her belonging to the Western culture in which she has lost or abandoned all the preordained roles of daughter, wife and mother. Sex does not outstrip the loneliness and repressed secrets from the past surface into a world she sees as much crueller and, at the same time, more innocent than her own.
Cleverly written as an alternating narrative of both sides in the relationship, the novel is interlaced with magic realism and accurately perceived fragments of African political reality.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9781908236265
BY (AUTHOR) Gabriela, Babnik, TRANSLATED BY Grau, Rawley
PUBLISHER : Istros Books	PUBLICATION DATE : October 12, 2015
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : Istros Books
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

WEIGHT : 250 g

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