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001			1023048313
003			OCoLC
005			20221006110102.0
008			180216s2018 sa 000 f eng d
020			_a1415209421 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781415209424 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1023048313
040			_aLibrary of Congress _beng _cAfrica University
049			_aEEMR
050			_aPR9369.4.NDL 2018
082	0	4	_a823.92 _223
090			_aPR9369.4.N37 _bT54 2018
100	1		_aNdlovu, Siphiwe Gloria, _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2021019321.
245	1	4	_aThe theory of flight / _cSiphiwe Gloria Ndlovu.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aCape Town : _bPenguin Random House, _c2018.
300			_a330 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_aAs Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma in hospital after a long illness, her family and friends struggle to come to terms with her impending death. Genie has gifts that transcend time and space, and this is her story. It is also the story of her forebears - Baines Tikiti, who, because of his wanderlust, changed his name and ended up walking into the Indian Ocean; his son, Livingstone Stanley Tikiti, who, during the war, took as his nom de guerre Golide Gumede and who became obsessed with flight; and Golide's wife, Elizabeth Nyoni, a country-and-western singer self-styled after Dolly Parton, blonde wig and all. With the lightest of touches, and with an overlay of magical-realist beauty, this novel sketches, through the lives of a few families and the fate of a single patch of ground, decades of national history - from colonial occupation to the freedom struggle, to the devastation wrought by the sojas, the hi virus, and The Man Himself. By turns mysterious and magical, but always honest, The Theory of Flight dwells not on what was lost and what went wrong in a nation's history, but on the personal triumphs and why they matter.
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655		7	_aFiction. _2lcgft _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339.
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787.
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