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Kafka's Curse
A collection of Poetry by Achmat Dangor
Subgenres:
- Post-Apartheid South Africa,
- Magical Realism,
- Literary Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Modern retellings of Arabic fairy tales in poetic form
- Stories exploring identity, race, and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa
- Lyrical prose woven with allegory and complex family dynamics
From the award-winning South African poet Achmat Dangor, an extraordinary American debut and an imaginative reinterpretation of an old Arabic fairy tale unfolds in five magical narratives set in post-apartheid South Africa.
Kafka's Curse is the story of Oscar Kahn (born Omar Khan), a "colored" Muslim architect passing as a Jewish man, married to a white woman, who eventually experiences a mysterious physical transformation, the likes of which no one can explain.
As his brother Malik, a politician firmly rooted in Islam, tries to come to terms with his brother's betrayal, he abandons both his principles and his family when he falls in love with Amina, Omar's beautiful psychotherapist.
With the hauntingly lyrical and rich allegory of Kafka's Curse, Achmat Dangor commands a position at the forefront of contemporary literature.
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