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The Detainee

von Legson Kayira

Fiction

ISBN

0435901621

Verlag

Heinemann Educational Books

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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African literature political fiction dystopian dictatorship power dynamics social commentary allegory village life journey innocence oppression resistance human rights survival cultural exploration 20th century literary fiction adult fiction character study psychological fiction international fiction African setting social injustice authoritarian regime moral complexity.

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$A 'The only remarkable thing about Napolo was his simplicity - the naive and trusting simplicity of a villager ... ' The old man Napolo sets off from his village to go to see a white doctor in a distant town. On the way he falls among young thugs of the Youth Brigade who terrorize the land under the dictatorship of Sir Zaddock. He is taken away to a detention camp. It takes him a little time to realize that this is not just a rest camp. This remarkable and stylish novel shows an ordinary man mystified by the ways of people who have power over other men. It happens to be set in Africa and it happens to be in a dictatorship, but the bafflement of the old man in the face of changing circumstances could be anywhere in the world.