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02564aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 E72BFCBE0BB511ECB4F7DDF040ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210902012041 008 201125s2021 cau 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2020933732 020 $a 1946395412 020 $a 9781946395412 035 $a (OCoLC)1226440681 040 $a MLSOD $b eng $e rda $c MLSOD $d BDX $d DYJ $d SO$ $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d FHP $d OCLCF $d HKHPL $d TOH $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.4.N37 $b T54 2021 082 04 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria, $e author. 245 14 $a The theory of flight / $c Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Pacifica, California : $b Catalyst Press $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 319 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Originally published by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa, in South Africa in 2018."--Title page verso. 520 $a "As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma at Mater Dei Hospital after having suffered through a long illness, her family and friends struggle to come to terms with her impending death. This is the story of Genie, who has gifts that transcend time and space. 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 (a country in Southern Africa that is never named) - from colonial occupation through the freedom struggle, to the devastation wrought by the sojas, the HIV virus, and The Man Himself. At turns mysterious and magical, but always honest, The Theory of Flight explores the many ways we lose those we love before they die."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Science fiction. 650 0 $a Coma $x Patients $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $z Africa $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Magic realist fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023654.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210902012241.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E72BFCBE0BB511ECB4F7DDF040ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search