Molly and the Muslim Stick (Macmillan Caribbean Writers) - Softcover
Molly is raised in the harsh surroundings of Accrington, Yorkshire, during the years leading up to World War Two. Systematically abused by her father and his band of pals, becoming consummate in sex and hatred at an early age, she matures into a wounded and broken creature, half soothsayer, half madwoman: a creation to rival the fabulous beings of Guyanese myth. As her life story unfolds, we enter an absurdist narrative peopled with talking animals, demented prophets, shape-shifting ghosts, Amerindian asylum seekers and a Muslim walking stick. Raleigh's discovery of Guiana, the Suez Crisis, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, the clash of civilisations - much here resonates with the impulses of the Third World canon, yet David Dabydeen's gentle insistence that only pity can cleanse away the crimes of history, and the magical transformations enacted by his jewelled and sumptuous prose, ensure the reader's bewitchment throughout this rich and strangely wrought, marvellous tale of human suffering and redemption.
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"Wonderful, rich writing." --Barbara Nelson, The Sunday Gleaner
"...it's rare to read a novel so ambitious, so tautly written, so able to survey a personal and historical landscape mired in horror and from it to divine otherworldly pathways that hint at the possibility of redemption." --Sukhdev Sandu, The Telegraph
"David Daydeen weaves a fascinating tale of a life in turmoil after a decade of physical, phychological and sexual abuse ... Those who savour the boundless possibilities of the creative mind will find the panoramic meander through this novel a fascinating but challenging one." --Bonnie-Lou Darmaine, Caribbean Beat
About the Author:
"...it's rare to read a novel so ambitious, so tautly written, so able to survey a personal and historical landscape mired in horror and from it to divine otherworldly pathways that hint at the possibility of redemption." --Sukhdev Sandu, The Telegraph
"David Daydeen weaves a fascinating tale of a life in turmoil after a decade of physical, phychological and sexual abuse ... Those who savour the boundless possibilities of the creative mind will find the panoramic meander through this novel a fascinating but challenging one." --Bonnie-Lou Darmaine, Caribbean Beat
David Dabydeen was born in Guyana, read English at Cambridge, and is currently Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He has published five novels and three books of poems, including A Harlot's Progress, Our Lady of Demerara and Turner. His work has been shortlisted for the James Tait Memorial Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Dublin Impac Prize, and has received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Guyana Prize and the Raja Rao Prize.
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- PublisherMacmillan Caribbean
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0230028705
- ISBN 13 9780230028708
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages179
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition. Macmillan Caribbean, May 2008. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. iv + 179 pages. Most of Molly and the Muslim Stick is set in England, and spans the first half of the twentieth century and a little beyond. The story focuses on Molly Harris (Anglo-Brit), a victim of sexual abuse who tries to heal herself of the physical and mental effects of her abuse. When Molly is finally settled into a teaching career in a working class town, and has found a way to bring order to her very disordered life, an illegal immigrant from Guiana shows up on her doorstep. She takes him in, gives him a bath, powders him, clothes him in a dress, sticks a pipe in his mouth, places him on a sofa, and names him Om. He remains in her home, never developing social skills to function outside of it--his most coherent way of communicating with Molly is by emitting scents (of fear, of anger, etc.)--as part servant, part exotic exhibit for her friends and neighbors. Eventually, in the thick of the anti-communist, racist, xenophobic fervor of the 1950s, the man is deported. Molly discovers she can't live without him (they aren't romantically involved, but she feels a strong maternal-like attachment to him) and goes to Guiana in search of him. Once the novel's setting shifts to Guiana, we get a view of Amerindian lifestyle from the outsider. Molly is happy and relaxed in the serenity of the place where she can slow down and catch up with her life, and where she is treated like a special guest, fed and housed by the "natives." But eventually, she tires of it all and returns to England. But before she leaves, Molly discovers that Om's presence at her door in England may have been a "dream happening" gone wrong, and his subsequent return home to Guiana was a result of him dreaming his way back home. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000000648
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