Caposcripti - Softcover

Rhiando, Z

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957220308 ISBN 13: 9780957220300

Publisher: Ampersand Press, 2012

Synopsis

A novel about shrunken heads and dropouts, language and voyeurism, set in London and the Amazon basin. Modern London. The photographer is a man ruled by two obsessions. First, to take photographs that speak for him. Second, to make the subjects of those pictures speak to him alone. He is not interested in them as people - their banal tales of joy and suffering. His experiments are to uncover the secrets that they don't know they are keeping. Rewind to Peru in 1851. An explorer is battling to survive in a claustrophobic and unknown world. In flight from modernity he seeks older truths, which he finds in the customs of the Caposcripti. How these secrets survive, and how the photographer uses them in his terrifying experiments is only the beginning of the journey.

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Review

I loved the way the dialogue builds and builds, but is very subtle...a different way of looking. --Anna

I read this book in one day because once I got past the first few chapters I could not put it down. It completely exceeded my expectations and kept me intrigued the whole way through. It's one of the best books I've read which speaks on many different levels. Best of luck to the author! --Kerry_Kim

it's a great read. --Rod McLaren

I read this book in one day because once I got past the first few chapters I could not put it down. It completely exceeded my expectations and kept me intrigued the whole way through. It's one of the best books I've read which speaks on many different levels. Best of luck to the author! --Kerry_Kim

it's a great read. --Rod McLaren

About the Author

Zelda Rhiando lives and works in Brixton in London with her husband and two children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ampersand Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957220308
• ISBN 13: 9780957220300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 298