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'[this] satirical smart bomb of a debut novel...' --Independent
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'Utterly absorbing, this satirical novel will appeal to fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Swift and Raymond Carver.'
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Disguised as a young Dinka woman, God came at dusk to a refugee camp in the North Darfur region of Sudan. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Disguised as a young Dinka woman, God came at dusk to a refugee camp in the North Darfur region of Sudan. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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Format:Hardcover
I had the great fortune to attend a book reading by the author while on holiday in the US this summer. Hearing only a partial chapter read had me hooked. The premise of the book is that God has taken on human form to find out for himself the scale of suffering in Dafur. Unfortunately, as the title suggests, he dies. The book then explores the consequences of that; the descent into lawlessness, the collapse and re-building of society, and the need for mankind to find something or someone else to worship. Each chapter is rather like its own short story, with the notion of God being dead as the thread throughout. I should point out that in spite of the title, this book is not as bleak as it may sound. The book is beautifully written; you get a real sense that this has been crafted. It is a real treat to find good modern writing that challenges and delights at the same time.
Format:Hardcover
This is satire the way momma used to make it, served up hot and fresh, bitter and angry and very, very funny. It is a million miles away from the comfortable snarking served up on TV and radio as the height of satirical wit and much, much closer to the scabrous, pitiless style of Swift.
In a series of loosely interlinked short stories, Currie watches with a clear-sighted eye as humanity reacts to the death of God, whose guilt-wracked return to Earth in the form of a Dinka tribeswoman leads to his death at the hands of the Janjaweed militia. In wonderfully clear prose Currie leads the reader through encounters with an embittered Colin Powell, a selfishly optimistic teen, hopelessly unready for the world's falling apart, a psychiatrist sent to cure the world of child-worship, a crusade/jihad between Evolutionary Psychologists and Postmodern Anthropologists, even an encounter with the last remaining member of the feral dog pack that ate God's corpse.
His characters, flawed and flailing all, are rounded and real. His style is straightforward and elegant. His ideas original and nicely thought-through. It's not a book one could necessarily call a joy to read but it is something of a pleasure.
In a series of loosely interlinked short stories, Currie watches with a clear-sighted eye as humanity reacts to the death of God, whose guilt-wracked return to Earth in the form of a Dinka tribeswoman leads to his death at the hands of the Janjaweed militia. In wonderfully clear prose Currie leads the reader through encounters with an embittered Colin Powell, a selfishly optimistic teen, hopelessly unready for the world's falling apart, a psychiatrist sent to cure the world of child-worship, a crusade/jihad between Evolutionary Psychologists and Postmodern Anthropologists, even an encounter with the last remaining member of the feral dog pack that ate God's corpse.
His characters, flawed and flailing all, are rounded and real. His style is straightforward and elegant. His ideas original and nicely thought-through. It's not a book one could necessarily call a joy to read but it is something of a pleasure.
Format:Paperback
God comes to Earth in Darfur in the form of a refugee woman, but gets killed, and this changes the world. Lawlessness, panic, and suicide pacts take over for a while - then people with nothing to do on a Sunday now start to worship their children - which leads a to a (further) dumming down of Western civilisation. Meanwhile, factions develop into worldwide war - the Post Modern Anthropologists versus the Evolutionary Psychologists - different sides of the same coin, and of course now God's not there, what was all that fuss about intelligent design about!!! But most people it seems, still need something to hang their faith upon.
The novel does not have a coherent plot, rather it's a linked series of episodes each exploring a facet of the impact of God's death on humanity, highlighting all our failings - 'twas ever thus. Provocative, irreverent, pessimistic, yet poignant in many parts, for a book about the death of religion, it seemed to be almost pro, as the world without God was an even worse place. A case for a sort of benign agnosticism perhaps? An interesting, well-written and thought-provoking read.
The novel does not have a coherent plot, rather it's a linked series of episodes each exploring a facet of the impact of God's death on humanity, highlighting all our failings - 'twas ever thus. Provocative, irreverent, pessimistic, yet poignant in many parts, for a book about the death of religion, it seemed to be almost pro, as the world without God was an even worse place. A case for a sort of benign agnosticism perhaps? An interesting, well-written and thought-provoking read.
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