Verdict: carrot
Contrasting the disused railway station servicing a country estate with a small novelty train that ushers tourists over the grounds, the narrator of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn muses: “It seemed to me like a curious object lesson from the history of evolution, which at times repeats its earlier conceits with a certain sense of irony …” A similar irony suffuses Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s first novel, Tram 83, but its sentimental geography represents less a history that has careened into decadence than one that has never properly begun.
Book Details
- Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser
EAN: 9781941920046
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