The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim

The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780811227872
ISBN-13 : 0811227871
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Book Synopsis The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim by : Marcia Douglas

Download or read book The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim written by Marcia Douglas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancestors have awakened. Somebody has called them. The long-dead are stirring. Jah ways are mysterious ways. “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.


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