Marvellous Equations of the Dread - A Novel in Bass Riddim

"Is me-Bob. Bob Marley." 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 Kingston's ghettoes
to London, from Haile Selaisse's Ethiopian palace and back to Jamaica, Marcia Douglas's mythical reworking of three hundred years of violence is a ticket to the deep world of Rasta history. This amazing novel-in bass riddim-carries the reader on a voyage all the way to the gates of Zion.

About the author

Marcia Douglas was born in the UK, and grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. The author of novels, poems, and essays, she is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Foundation, and a UK Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Marvellous Equations of the Dread was longlisted for the 2016 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She is a College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Product details

• Authors: Marcia Douglas
• Publisher: New Directions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780811227865
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2786-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Märchen, Mythen, Fabeln und Legenden, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Magical Realism, Fiction - General