The Explosion of the Radiator Hose : A Novel Paperback / softback
by Jean Rolin
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In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard.
The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s--but no less present are W.
G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin's sensual and digressive attack upon history: his own as well as the world's.
By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and humane, "The Explosion of the Radiator Hose" is a one-of-a-kind travelogue, and no less an exploration of what it means to be human in a life of perpetual exile and migration.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:19/05/2011
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- ISBN:9781564786326
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:19/05/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781564786326
