OPINIONISTA: How you are missing out on the literary revolution in your backyard By Ben Williams
There’s something that you may not be aware of. It’s important that you pay attention. You need to know about this. Odds are, you’re missing out.
Because if you don’t, and you stay in your current lane, the moment is going to pass you by. I know all about this lane. Its lines were painted by a literary work crew from London or New York. It’s crowded. New stuff – astonishing debuts from here to kingdom come. Established stuff – gushed-over third and fourth novels whose streets are littered with used heroin needles and predatory priests. And so on.Did you know that Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s second novel is already here? Her second one.
The same thing with an Eastern European writer in the Eighties, Kundera. He somehow lifted a fold of the Iron Curtain and shovedthat book you just lent to your neighbour – under it, into the cool, quenching air of the West. The first book is all it takes. Then, in a couple of years, you find yourself gabbing about writers from Sarajevo, Krakow, Bucharest and, yes, Prague, where Kundera got started. How did that happen?. But it didn’t. Not quite.
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