This Day and Age

With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, This Day and Age realizes the prophecy told to a newly elected president on the eve of his inauguration. After years of bountiful harmony will come plague and famine, during which a strange man-child with a Bible chained to his wrist and his army of the disenfranchised will gather strength in the most remote reaches of the land.

"Mike Nicol joins the roster . . . of Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and the magical realists of Latin America."--The New York Times Book Review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/01/1995
ISBN: 9780679742005
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.67d

Review Citations: New York Times 10/08/1995 pg. 40